My OperaFrance-where, one is not to qustion not even in your mind. The end of qustioning is the end of civil liberty and of "age of reason".
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Posts tagged with "law"
Cumhurbaşkanının görev süresi beş(5)yıldır - The president's term of office shall be five(5) years...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 7:22:26 PM
From: TBMM site
TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ ANAYASASI
..."I. Cumhurbaşkanı
A. Nitelikleri ve tarafsızlığı
MADDE 101- (Değişik: 21/10/2007-5678/4 md.)
Cumhurbaşkanı, kırk yaşını doldurmuş ve yüksek öğrenim yapmış Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi üyeleri
veya bu niteliklere ve milletvekili seçilme yeterliğine sahip Türk vatandaşları arasından, halk tarafından seçilir.
Cumhurbaşkanının görev süresi beş yıldır. Bir kimse en fazla iki defa Cumhurbaşkanı seçilebilir."...
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http://www.byegm.gov.tr/content.aspx?s=tcotrot
OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER - DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF PRESS & INFORMATION
CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY
CHAPTER TWO
THE EXECUTIVE
I. President of the Republic
A. Qualifications and Impartiality
ARTICLE 101. (As amended on May 31, 2007)
The President of the Republic shall be elected by the public from among the Turkish Grand National Assembly members who are over 40 years of age and have completed higher education or from among ordinary Turkish citizens who fulfill these requirements and are eligible to be deputies.
The president's term of office shall be five years. The President of the Republic can be elected to two terms at most.
Wiki Leaks: The Spy Files (or how too make huge money from regimes on dubious info(and hell with the laws and constitutions).
Monday, December 12, 2011 4:23:01 PM
From: Wiki Leaks: The Spy Files
http://wikileaks.org/The-Spyfiles
..."It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass interception systems, built by Western intelligence contractors, including for ’political opponents’ are a reality. Today WikiLeaks began releasing a database of hundreds of documents from as many as 160 intelligence contractors in the mass surveillance industry. Working with Bugged Planet and Privacy International, as well as media organizations form six countries – ARD in Germany, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in the UK, The Hindu in India, L’Espresso in Italy, OWNI in France and the Washington Post in the U.S. Wikileaks is shining a light on this secret industry that has boomed since September 11, 2001 and is worth billions of dollars per year. WikiLeaks has released 287 documents today, but the Spy Files project is ongoing and further information will be released this week and into next year.
International surveillance companies are based in the more technologically sophisticated countries, and they sell their technology on to every country of the world. This industry is, in practice, unregulated. Intelligence agencies, military forces and police authorities are able to silently, and on mass, and secretly intercept calls and take over computers without the help or knowledge of the telecommunication providers. Users’ physical location can be tracked if they are carrying a mobile phone, even if it is only on stand by.
But the WikiLeaks Spy Files are more than just about ’good Western countries’ exporting to ’bad developing world countries’. Western companies are also selling a vast range of mass surveillance equipment to Western intelligence agencies. In traditional spy stories, intelligence agencies like MI5 bug the phone of one or two people of interest. In the last ten years systems for indiscriminate, mass surveillance have become the norm. Intelligence companies such as VASTech secretly sell equipment to permanently record the phone calls of entire nations. Others record the location of every mobile phone in a city, down to 50 meters. Systems to infect every Facebook user, or smart-phone owner of an entire population group are on the intelligence market.
Selling Surveillance to Dictators
When citizens overthrew the dictatorships in Egypt and Libya this year, they uncovered listening rooms where devices from Gamma corporation of the UK, Amesys of France, VASTech of South Africa and ZTE Corp of China monitored their every move online and on the phone.
Surveillance companies like SS8 in the U.S., Hacking Team in Italy and Vupen in France manufacture viruses (Trojans) that hijack individual computers and phones (including iPhones, Blackberries and Androids), take over the device, record its every use, movement, and even the sights and sounds of the room it is in. Other companies like Phoenexia in the Czech Republic collaborate with the military to create speech analysis tools. They identify individuals by gender, age and stress levels and track them based on ‘voiceprints’. Blue Coat in the U.S. and Ipoque in Germany sell tools to governments in countries like China and Iran to prevent dissidents from organizing online.
Trovicor, previously a subsidiary of Nokia Siemens Networks, supplied the Bahraini government with interception technologies that tracked human rights activist Abdul Ghani Al Khanjar. He was shown details of personal mobile phone conversations from before he was interrogated and beaten in the winter of 2010-2011.
How Mass Surveillance Contractors Share Your Data with the State
In January 2011, the National Security Agency broke ground on a $1.5 billion facility in the Utah desert that is designed to store terabytes of domestic and foreign intelligence data forever and process it for years to come.
Telecommunication companies are forthcoming when it comes to disclosing client information to the authorities - no matter the country. Headlines during August’s unrest in the UK exposed how Research in Motion (RIM), makers of the Blackberry, offered to help the government identify their clients. RIM has been in similar negotiations to share BlackBerry Messenger data with the governments of India, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Weaponizing Data Kills Innocent People
There are commercial firms that now sell special software that analyze this data and turn it into powerful tools that can be used by military and intelligence agencies.
For example, in military bases across the U.S., Air Force pilots use a video link and joystick to fly Predator drones to conduct surveillance over the Middle East and Central Asia. This data is available to Central Intelligence Agency officials who use it to fire Hellfire missiles on targets.
The CIA officials have bought software that allows them to match phone signals and voice prints instantly and pinpoint the specific identity and location of individuals. Intelligence Integration Systems, Inc., based in Massachusetts - sells a “location-based analytics” software called Geospatial Toolkit for this purpose. Another Massachusetts company named Netezza, which bought a copy of the software, allegedly reverse engineered the code and sold a hacked version to the Central Intelligence Agency for use in remotely piloted drone aircraft.
IISI, which says that the software could be wrong by a distance of up to 40 feet, sued Netezza to prevent the use of this software. Company founder Rich Zimmerman stated in court that his “reaction was one of stun, amazement that they (CIA) want to kill people with my software that doesn’t work."
Orwell’s World
Across the world, mass surveillance contractors are helping intelligence agencies spy on individuals and ‘communities of interest’ on an industrial scale."...
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(All founded by your taxes, to be used against you, NOT terrorism or foreign enemies, but YOU!!!
It is interesting how the Turkish mass media have skipped this story. These monies could be used to build schools, hospitals, etc..etc.. - tkm)
KÜRDİSTANLI OLMAK... - Hasan Pulur
Monday, July 18, 2011 2:02:36 PM
http://gundem.milliyet.com.tr/kurdistanli-olmak-/gundem/gundemyazardetay/18.07.2011/1415674/default.htm
Milliyet.com.tr
KÜRDİSTANLI OLMAK... - Hasan Pulur
18 Temmuz Pazartesi 2011
"...“Bugün canım yazı yazmak istemiyor!”
Bizim de öyle! 13 şehitten sonra, ne yüreğimiz kaldırıyor, ne elimiz varıyor, yazsak ne yazacağız?!
Hep aynı şeyleri değil mi?
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Törenlerde, meydanlarda slogan değişiyor mu?
“Şehitlerimiz ölmez...”
Ama ölüyorlar; onlar ölüyor, törenler yapılıyor, nutuklar atılıyor, biz yazıyoruz, sonra...
Yeni “pusu ve katliam”lara kadar...
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Her şehitten sonra, her katliamdan sonra herkes yazılı bir programı uyguluyor...
Güvenlik güçleri eşkıyayı takip için gerekli önlemleri almışlardır. Eğer sayı büyük ve olay anlamlıysa, Ankara’dan başlayan program şehit yakınlarının cenaze töreninde teselli edilişine kadar eksiksiz uygulanır, devlet adamları, nutuklar atarlar...
Hele “terörle bir yere varamayız” lafı var ya!
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“Terörün nereye vardığı ortada, bunlar hâlâ, dün bile “terörle bir yere varılmaz” de çırpınıp duruyorlar...
Öcalan tarih veriyor, süre veriyor. “Devletle barış konseyi” kurduk!” diyor, asker kaçırılıyor, 13 askeri şehit ediyorlar ve özerklik ilan ediliyor.
Hayır dağda, bayırda değil, Diyarbakır’da...
850 delegeyle olağanüstü kongre düzenleyen Demokratik Toplum Kongresi (DTK) “Demokratik özerklik” ilan etti. Sonuç bildirgesinde “Kürt halkı artık ulusal varlığını statüsüz bir halk olarak yaşamak istememektedir” denildi. DTK’nın, Diyarbakır BDP il binasında dün düzenlediği olağanüstü kongreye aralarında BDP’li milletvekilleri, belediye başkanları ve bazı STK’ların süren toplantı sonrası sonuç bildirgesi milletvekili Aysel Tuğluk tarafından okundu.
Eee, ne olacak?
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Olacağı şu, bırakın Türk olmayı, Türkiyeli olmak bile geride kaldı.
Artık “Nerelisin?” diye soranlara “ Kürdistanlıyım!” denilecek.
Aysel Tuğluk’un okuduğu sonuç bildirgesinin sonunda şöyle deniyordu:
“Ortak vatan anlayışı, toprak bütünlüğü ve demokratik ulus perspektifi temelinde Türkiye halklarının ulusal bütünlüğüne bağlı kalarak Kürt halkı olarak demokratik özerkliğimizi ilan ediyoruz. Haklı davamızda, özerklik süresine bağlı çıkmaya, güçlendirmeye davet ediyoruz. Halkımızın vicdanı olan, aydın, yazar, STK temsilcileri, coğrafyamızda yaşayan herkesi, kendisini demokratik özerk Kürdistanlı olarak tanıtmaya davet ediyoruz.”
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Bunun sonu nereye mi varır?
Bir sabah kalkarsınız, Diyarbakır hükümet konağın da “bayrak” değişimini görürsünüz.
Olamaz mı?
Anlaşıldı, siz hâlâ “terörle bir yere varılmaz” diyenlerdensiniz..."
This will be "a back to basics" series, - Political Philosophy
Sunday, July 3, 2011 11:52:04 AM
Please use the link(s) to view the content(s) in full.
TIP: Right click on the link and open it as a new window or tab. Broadband and Adobe Flash playable browser needed.
THANK YOU! - tkm
http://www.youtube.com/user/YaleCourses#grid/user/8D95DEA9B7DFE825
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Professor Steven B. Smith discusses the nature and scope of "political philosophy." The oldest of the social sciences, the study of political philosophy must begin with the works of Plato and Aristotle, and examine in depth the fundamental concepts and categories of the study of politics. The questions "which regimes are best?" and "what constitutes good citizenship?" are posed and discussed in the context of Plato's Apology.
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses
This course was recorded in Fall 2006.
http://youtu.be/xhm55mIdSuk
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2. Socratic Citizenship: Plato's Apology
http://youtu.be/oFglU_ED4h0
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3. Socratic Citizenship: Plato's Crito
http://youtu.be/PsRexM78_Vk
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Dear Readers and Viewers,
This will be "a back to basics" series
is 24 lectures(each running between 38 min. and 48 min.)
Thank you Yale University and it's online courses!
Enjoy
tkm
TIP: Right click on the link and open it as a new window or tab. Broadband and Adobe Flash playable browser needed.
THANK YOU! - tkm
http://www.youtube.com/user/YaleCourses#grid/user/8D95DEA9B7DFE825
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Professor Steven B. Smith discusses the nature and scope of "political philosophy." The oldest of the social sciences, the study of political philosophy must begin with the works of Plato and Aristotle, and examine in depth the fundamental concepts and categories of the study of politics. The questions "which regimes are best?" and "what constitutes good citizenship?" are posed and discussed in the context of Plato's Apology.
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses
This course was recorded in Fall 2006.
http://youtu.be/xhm55mIdSuk
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2. Socratic Citizenship: Plato's Apology
http://youtu.be/oFglU_ED4h0
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3. Socratic Citizenship: Plato's Crito
http://youtu.be/PsRexM78_Vk
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Dear Readers and Viewers,
This will be "a back to basics" series
is 24 lectures(each running between 38 min. and 48 min.)
Thank you Yale University and it's online courses!
Enjoy
tkm
uyanık "ılımlı islam muhafazakârlık"?...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 3:07:00 PM
(Please click on the link bellow to read the article(s)in full. Thank you. tkm)
http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?hn=246562&kw=%DCresin%3A+%C7oke%FElilik+yasala%FEmal%FD
Cumhuriyet
..."Üresin: Çokeşlilik yasalaşmalı
Eyüp belediyesinin aile danışmanı Sibel Üresin şok etkisi yaratan açıklamasında çokeşliliğin yasalaşması gerektiğini savundu.
Cumhuriyet Haber Portalı
İstanbul- Ümraniye, Bahçelievler, Eyüp ve Fatih gibi birçok belediye ve kurumlar için aile içi iletişim seminerleri veren Sibel Üresin, hem yaşam koçluğu, hem de aile ve evlilik danışmanlığı yapıyor. Özellikle muhafazakâr kesim tarafından iyi tanınıyor.
Habertürk gazetesine konuşan Üresin, çokeşliliğin yasalaşması gerektiğini savunarak, “Zaten çokeşlilik var. Erkeklerin yüzde 85’i aldatıyor. Bu muhafazakâr kesimde ‘imam nikâhlı eş’, diğer kesimde ‘metres’ adını alıyor” diyor. 35 yaşındaki Üresin, çokeşliliğin neden yasalaşması gerektiğini anlattı:"...
http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?hn=246562&kw=%DCresin%3A+%C7oke%FElilik+yasala%FEmal%FD
Cumhuriyet
..."Üresin: Çokeşlilik yasalaşmalı
Eyüp belediyesinin aile danışmanı Sibel Üresin şok etkisi yaratan açıklamasında çokeşliliğin yasalaşması gerektiğini savundu.
Cumhuriyet Haber Portalı
İstanbul- Ümraniye, Bahçelievler, Eyüp ve Fatih gibi birçok belediye ve kurumlar için aile içi iletişim seminerleri veren Sibel Üresin, hem yaşam koçluğu, hem de aile ve evlilik danışmanlığı yapıyor. Özellikle muhafazakâr kesim tarafından iyi tanınıyor.
Habertürk gazetesine konuşan Üresin, çokeşliliğin yasalaşması gerektiğini savunarak, “Zaten çokeşlilik var. Erkeklerin yüzde 85’i aldatıyor. Bu muhafazakâr kesimde ‘imam nikâhlı eş’, diğer kesimde ‘metres’ adını alıyor” diyor. 35 yaşındaki Üresin, çokeşliliğin neden yasalaşması gerektiğini anlattı:"...
1 milyon site yasaklı - one millon sites baned or The "Arab Spring" and the "Turkish Winter(in Spring)"
Monday, May 23, 2011 3:46:36 PM
http://www.milliyet.com.tr/internette-sansur-yok-ama-1-milyon-site-yasakli/serhat-ayan/teknoloji/yazardetay/23.05.2011/1393586/default.htm
Milliyet
İnternette sansür yok ama 1 milyon site yasaklı
23 Mayıs 2011
Serhat Ayan
..."İnternet kafelerde filtrelenen sitelerin sadece 10 adet katalog suç kapsamında olması beklenirken bir çok sitenin herhangi bir suç teşkil etmeyen yapıları dikkat çekti. Çok sayıda derneğin, mayo firmalarının, nakliye şirketlerinin, manken ajanslarının, radyoların, otomotiv firmalarının, tasarımcıların internet sitelerinin yanında daha önce sehven kapatılma kararı alındığı belirtilen sözlük siteleri de internet kafe filtrelemesine takıldı. Kullanıcıların yorumlarını girdiği sözlük sitelerinin yanı sıra Fransızca ve İspanyolca sözlük sitelerinin bulunması dikkatleri çekti.
İnternet kafelerin filtresine takılan siteler bununla da bitmiyor: Yakın tarihe kadar İnternet kafelerden erişime engellenmiş olan ve sonradan erişime açılan sitelerin arasında dünyanın en çok ziyaret edilen adresleri de bulunuyor: Google, BBC Haber sitesi, Dailymotion, Facebook, eBay açık artırma sitesi ve Amazon bir süre bu filtreleme uygulaması içinde kaldı, fakat sonradan kara listeden çıkartılarak tekrar kullanıma açıldı.
Kapanıp tekrar açılan sitelerin içinde Superonline, Escort bilgisayar, İnsan Hakları Derneği, Bilyoner bahis sitesi, FHM giyim sitesi gibi Türkiye’nin önde gelen adresleri de var.
Sitelerin tamamını kapatmak yerine içinde belli bölümlerin engellenmesi uygulaması da internet kafe filtresiyle gündeme geldi. Bazı kişilerin Facebook profilleri, gazetelerin resim galerilerindeki kimi fotoğraflar bu filtreleme uygulamasından nasibini aldı."...
..."Kimler filtreye takıldı
Ten.com.tr: Mayo tanıtım sitesi
Gazikent.com.tr: Otomobil satış sitesi
Kelebeknakliyat.com.tr: evden eve taşımacılık sitesi
Klas.com.tr: Klas FM radyo sitesi
Gayesokmen.com.tr: Manken ajansı
Leylainanir.com.tr: Güzellik ürünleri tanıtım sitesi
Estem.com.tr: Poliklinik sitesi
Utopiaworld.com.tr: Otel sitesi
Eforbranda.com.tr: Çadır ve branda ürünleri tanıtım sitesi
Panama.com.tr: Tekstil sitesi
Yararmesrubat.com.tr: Meşrubat ve içecek satış sitesi
urfalilar.org.tr: Şanlı Urfalılar Derneğinin sitesi
acmd.org.tr: Ankara ÇokSesli Müzik Derneğinin sitesi
kaosgl.com: Kaos GL Gey Lezbiyen Biseksüel Trans Eşcinsel Haber Portalı
lambdaistanbul.org: Lambda İstanbul Derneğinin sitesi."...
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http://www.turk.internet.com/portal/yazigoster.php?yaziid=32468
www.turk.internet.com
BTK-TIB, Internet Sansürü Konusunda Internet Medyasini Bilgilendirme Toplantisi Yapti
yazi - Fusun S.Nebil
20-05-2011
..."Bu yazi turk.internet.com adresinden yazdirilmistir.
Bu sabah BTK-TIB yetkilileri, Feriye'de internet medyasini bilgilendirme toplantisi yapti ve son günlerin “internet sansürü” konusunu anlattilar. BTK Baskani Tayfun Acarer, TIB Internet Dairesi Baskani Osman Nihat Sen, Internet Kurulu Baskani Serhat Özeren'in konusmalariyla açilan toplantida, gazetecilerin sorulari cevaplandirildi ve süreç anlatildi. Konusmaya BTK Baskani Acarer basladi. Özetle sunlari söyledi :
Önce belirteyim; kurumun yapisinda birbirinin içine girmis 2 yapi var. Biri bilisi ve telekom alanini düzenleyen BTK. Digeri de onun bünyesinde olan fakat daha farkli müstakil yapida olan TIB.
Internet sansürü denilen konuya gelince ; biz masanin bir tarafinda oturuyoruz. Tepkileri anlamakta zorlaniyoruz. Masanin diger tarafindan neler oluyor dinlemek istiyoruz. Olay siradan bir düzenlemeydi ama hiç tahmin etmedigimiz boyuta geldi. Her ne kadar olay yeni çikti sanilsa da, 10 ay önce yani 28 temmiz 2010 tarihinde yayinlanan tüketici haklari yönetmeligi ile ilgili bir konu.
Bize göre bu çok güzel bir yönetmelik. Tüketiciler için çok olumlu yönler içeriyor. Ama nedense bu yönetmelik basinda fazla yer almadi. Halbuki öncesinde görüs aldik herkesten ve öyle hazirladik. Biz genellikle her konudaki düzenlemelerde önceden görüsleri aliyoruz. Bu yönetmelik de, varsa görüsü olan bildirsin diye, 3 hafta kadar görüslere açik kaldi.
Bu yönetmelikte, bir çok madde var. Bunlar bugün konumuz degil. Mesela çagri merkezlerine yönelik düzenleme var. Bugün 39.000 çalisani olan çagri merkezlerinin yaridan fazlasi bilisim sektöründe. Yönetmelikte bu 21.000 kisiyi ilgilendiren ve bilisim disi düzenleme getirmeyen bir düzenleme yapildi ve bir abone çagri merkezini aradiginda en geç 22 saniyede ulasacak denildi. Ayrica görüsme süresi limitli olacak denildi. Böyle güzel düzenlemeler var.
Bugünkü konumuzdaki madde söyle ifade ediliyor. Internet kullanicilari, güvenli internet hizmetini ücretsiz almalidir maddesi var. Bu madde ile ilgili bize hiç tepki de gelmedi.
Devletteki yapiya bakarsaniz, önce kanun çikar, kanunda maddeler vardir ama detayi açiklamaz. Anayasa da öyledir. Ama bazi konularda yükümlülükler getirir. Bu yükümlülükler nasil yerine getirilecek konusu yönetmeliklerle düzenlenir.
Bu maddeye istinaden TIB, internet baskanligi bir dizi toplantilar yapti. Özellikle 15'in üstünde ve ISP'lerle toplantilar yapildi ve ortak bir metin ortaya çikarildi. Bu konuya özel brifing de verildi. Sonra kurulda bu konu görüsüldü.
Neticede subat ayinda bir düzenleme olarak ortaya çikti. Bizim için siradan bir düzenlemeydi. Bu alternatifti. Bir seçenek getiriyorduk. Isteyen kullanir, istemeyen kullanmaz. Yönetmelikle belirlenen ise, hangi kosullarla kullanilirin belirlenmesi ve ücretsiz olmasiydi.
Yönetmeligi, subatta webe koyduk yayinlandi. Aradan haftalar, aylar geçti. Yani tam 2,5 ay sonra ortaya çikti. Bir anda internete sansür diye ortaya çikti. Hatta bana gazeteciler tarafindan soruldugunda ilk önce hatirlayamadim.
Dedigim gibi siradan bir düzenlemeydi. Tüm abonelere bir uygulama içine almayi degil, seçenlere bilgi verecek bir uygulamaydi.
Mesela kayit disi telefon gibi bir düzenleme degildi. Numara tasima gibi bir seçenekti. Isteyen tasir, istemeyen tasimaz. Biz kosullari sekillendirdik.
Altini tekrar çizerek söylüyorum. Isteyenin kullanacagi, istemeyenin kullanmayacagi bir seçenekti. ISS'ler sistemlerini buna uygun hale getirmek için bir süre istediler. Bu süre 6 aydi.
22 agustostan sonra ne olacak diye bakarsaniz, bugün herkes tek bir profil içinde. Bu profile ilaveten baska bir profil tanimi getiriliyor. Bu güvenli profil. Yaklasik 9,5 milyon internet kullanicisindan isteyenler buna geçecek. Güvenli profile geçenler de 3 tane ana profil seçeçcek. Aile, çocuk, yerli. Hiçbir sey isaret etmezse aile profilini seçmis olacak. Çocuk seçmisse, ISP ona bir sifre verecek. Bu sifre ile girecek.
Temel nokta bu. Geçis ücretsiz olacak. Istdigi takdirde mevcut profiline geri dönecek.
Bir kaç elestiri ile karsilandik. Bunlara cevap verelim;
"Devlet neden yapiyor" denildi? "ISP'ler yapsin" denildi. ISPler simdi de yapabilir, sonra da yapabilir. Devletin belirledigi profili kullanmayacagim diyebilir.
Bu profil uygulamasinin, diger uygulamalardan farki birincisi ücretsiz olacak. Servis saglayicilar bunu ücretsiz temin etmek zorundalar.
Diger yandan mevcut güvenlik profillerinde caydiricilik var. Çikamiyorsunuz. Caniniz isteyince hareket edemiyorsunuz. Girip, çikma rahat degil.
Güvenli profil bizim uygulayacagimiz profil degil. Biz servis saglayici degiliz: Sistem bizim üzerimizden akmiyor. Biz servis saglayicilari ile konusup, bütün servis saglayicilarinin benzeri alt yapiyi hazirlamalarini istiyoruz.
Sorulardan birisi de, simdi oldugu gibi DNS ayarlarinin üzerinden dolasmak mümkün mü? Olacak çünkü bugün neyse o olacak yine.
Tayfun Acarer'in bu açiklamalari sonrasi sözü alan Internet Kurulu Baskani Serhat Özeren konuyla ilgili olarak kisaca sunlari belirtti :
Internet kurulu, kamu ve özel sektörün, ilgili firmalarin yer aldigi bir kurulus. Bu konu son 1 aydir tartisiliyor. Internet Kurulu olarak biz 25 mayista çarsamba günü,i hem internet kurulu üyelerinin, hem de fikri olan akademisyenlerin katilacagi bir çalisma grubu topluyoruz. Sonunda bir rapor hazirlanacak. Hem BTK, hem de Ulastirma Bakanligina tavsiye nitelginde iletecegiz. Mevcut paketlerin içeriginin ne olmasi konusunu da tartisacagiz.
Daha sonra konusan TIB, Internet Baskani Osman Nihat Sen ise sunlari söyledi :
Teknik tarafi ile açiklamalar yapayim. 5651 sayili bir kanun var. Mayis 2007'de resmi gazetede yayinlandi. 6 ay kurulus süresinden sonra, BTK, TIB altinda internet baskanligi kuruldu. Yani 3,5 yillik bir süreçte faaliyetlerimiz var. Bazi konular 5651 ile ilintileniyor.
5651 sayili kanunla, mahkemeler ve kurumumuz belirli içerik olan sitelere erisimi engelleyebiliyorlar. 8 konuyla ilgili resen kapatma karari alabiliyoruz. Mahkeme yurtiçi ya da disi konulardaki sorunlari takip ediyor.
Bu kapsamda BTK kapsaminda bir ihbar merkezi kuruldu. Vatandaslardan her türlü sikayetleri aliyoruz. Internetle ilgili olmayan sorunlari bile anlatabiliyorlar. Çünkü çogu yerde canli insan çikmiyor, biz canli insanla cevap verdigimiz için insanlar ilgili olmayan sorunlari bile bize bildirmeye basladilar.
Dedigim gibi vatandaslarin sikayetlerinden bazilari 5651 kapsamina girmiyor. Mesela "Facebook'da kizimla ilgili sahte profil açilmis, altina çok kötü seyler yazilmis, kizim intihari düsünüyor." Ya da "Filan yerde uyusturucu satiliyor, polise bildirin" ya da "internetim çok yavas" diyorlar.
Çogu yerde, "internete yönelik bir satis sonrasi hizmeti alamiyoruz" diyen vatandaslar var. Var olan yazilimlarda belli bir mantik var. Bu mantik disindaki taleplerinizi karsilamiyor.
Biz de "dünyada ne yapiliyor" arastirmasina girdik. 5 ülkeyi ziyaret ettik. Bazilari ile de yazili ortamdan haberlestik. Ne yaptiklarini arastirdik.
Bizim vatandasimizin interneti yeni tanimalari nedeniyle, internet içerigi ile ilgili çok sikayet var. Aile ve çcouklarla ilgili önlem alinamiyor. Ciddi bir sikayet furyasi basladi. Inhope'a dün itibariyle üye olduk. Inhope kapsaminda sikayet toplayan merkezler var.
Bize 1 haftada gelen sikayet Inhope'a 1 yilda geliyormus. Kendilerine "yilda ne kadar sikayet geliyor?" diye sorduk, Inhope'a 4000 / yil geliyormus ama ülkemizde bazen 1 günde bile 4000 gelebiliyor.
Kullanici ve ebeveynlerin, evde (disarda ya da okulda degil), internet içerigini filtrelemeye yönelik bir ihtiyaçlari var. Alternatifli bir sey olmasini istiyorlar. Aninda degistirmeyi istiyorlar. Ama mevcut filtrelerde geçis yapilamiyor. Ebevynlerin ailelerinden talep edebilecekleri, aninda degistirebilecekleri bir profile ihtiyaç oldugunu, bir çok görüsmeler sonucunda yönetime rapor olarak sunduk.
Tüketici haklari konusunda BTK çalisma yapiyordu. Kullanicilarin "güvenli internet kullanmaya yönelik bir hizmet almasi hakki" var. Böyle bir düzenlemeye gidildi. Burada ekstra hiçbir sey yok.
Hersey hemen su andaki durumla ayni. Ama tepki dogdu. Saniriz birkaç farkli konu birlestirildi (özellikle nisan sonundaki kelime listesi olayi), ikincisi yönetmelik metni çok agir, teknik bir metin (yorumlanmasi gerekiyor).
Vatandaslarin sagliklarini (altin çilek konusunda binlerce sikayet var. Bir tanesi de ölüm sikayeti) düsünmüyorsak, intihari düsündürten sitelerin yayinlanmasini istiyorsak, o zaman bu yönetmeligi çikarmayalim ama toplamda çok ciddi sikayetler var. Bundan dolayi bu metinler ortaya çikti. Farkli farkli çevrelerin katkilariyla olusturuldu."...
Bu konusmalardan sonra gazeteciler sorular sordular.
Milliyet
İnternette sansür yok ama 1 milyon site yasaklı
23 Mayıs 2011
Serhat Ayan
..."İnternet kafelerde filtrelenen sitelerin sadece 10 adet katalog suç kapsamında olması beklenirken bir çok sitenin herhangi bir suç teşkil etmeyen yapıları dikkat çekti. Çok sayıda derneğin, mayo firmalarının, nakliye şirketlerinin, manken ajanslarının, radyoların, otomotiv firmalarının, tasarımcıların internet sitelerinin yanında daha önce sehven kapatılma kararı alındığı belirtilen sözlük siteleri de internet kafe filtrelemesine takıldı. Kullanıcıların yorumlarını girdiği sözlük sitelerinin yanı sıra Fransızca ve İspanyolca sözlük sitelerinin bulunması dikkatleri çekti.
İnternet kafelerin filtresine takılan siteler bununla da bitmiyor: Yakın tarihe kadar İnternet kafelerden erişime engellenmiş olan ve sonradan erişime açılan sitelerin arasında dünyanın en çok ziyaret edilen adresleri de bulunuyor: Google, BBC Haber sitesi, Dailymotion, Facebook, eBay açık artırma sitesi ve Amazon bir süre bu filtreleme uygulaması içinde kaldı, fakat sonradan kara listeden çıkartılarak tekrar kullanıma açıldı.
Kapanıp tekrar açılan sitelerin içinde Superonline, Escort bilgisayar, İnsan Hakları Derneği, Bilyoner bahis sitesi, FHM giyim sitesi gibi Türkiye’nin önde gelen adresleri de var.
Sitelerin tamamını kapatmak yerine içinde belli bölümlerin engellenmesi uygulaması da internet kafe filtresiyle gündeme geldi. Bazı kişilerin Facebook profilleri, gazetelerin resim galerilerindeki kimi fotoğraflar bu filtreleme uygulamasından nasibini aldı."...
..."Kimler filtreye takıldı
Ten.com.tr: Mayo tanıtım sitesi
Gazikent.com.tr: Otomobil satış sitesi
Kelebeknakliyat.com.tr: evden eve taşımacılık sitesi
Klas.com.tr: Klas FM radyo sitesi
Gayesokmen.com.tr: Manken ajansı
Leylainanir.com.tr: Güzellik ürünleri tanıtım sitesi
Estem.com.tr: Poliklinik sitesi
Utopiaworld.com.tr: Otel sitesi
Eforbranda.com.tr: Çadır ve branda ürünleri tanıtım sitesi
Panama.com.tr: Tekstil sitesi
Yararmesrubat.com.tr: Meşrubat ve içecek satış sitesi
urfalilar.org.tr: Şanlı Urfalılar Derneğinin sitesi
acmd.org.tr: Ankara ÇokSesli Müzik Derneğinin sitesi
kaosgl.com: Kaos GL Gey Lezbiyen Biseksüel Trans Eşcinsel Haber Portalı
lambdaistanbul.org: Lambda İstanbul Derneğinin sitesi."...
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http://www.turk.internet.com/portal/yazigoster.php?yaziid=32468
www.turk.internet.com
BTK-TIB, Internet Sansürü Konusunda Internet Medyasini Bilgilendirme Toplantisi Yapti
yazi - Fusun S.Nebil
20-05-2011
..."Bu yazi turk.internet.com adresinden yazdirilmistir.
Bu sabah BTK-TIB yetkilileri, Feriye'de internet medyasini bilgilendirme toplantisi yapti ve son günlerin “internet sansürü” konusunu anlattilar. BTK Baskani Tayfun Acarer, TIB Internet Dairesi Baskani Osman Nihat Sen, Internet Kurulu Baskani Serhat Özeren'in konusmalariyla açilan toplantida, gazetecilerin sorulari cevaplandirildi ve süreç anlatildi. Konusmaya BTK Baskani Acarer basladi. Özetle sunlari söyledi :
Önce belirteyim; kurumun yapisinda birbirinin içine girmis 2 yapi var. Biri bilisi ve telekom alanini düzenleyen BTK. Digeri de onun bünyesinde olan fakat daha farkli müstakil yapida olan TIB.
Internet sansürü denilen konuya gelince ; biz masanin bir tarafinda oturuyoruz. Tepkileri anlamakta zorlaniyoruz. Masanin diger tarafindan neler oluyor dinlemek istiyoruz. Olay siradan bir düzenlemeydi ama hiç tahmin etmedigimiz boyuta geldi. Her ne kadar olay yeni çikti sanilsa da, 10 ay önce yani 28 temmiz 2010 tarihinde yayinlanan tüketici haklari yönetmeligi ile ilgili bir konu.
Bize göre bu çok güzel bir yönetmelik. Tüketiciler için çok olumlu yönler içeriyor. Ama nedense bu yönetmelik basinda fazla yer almadi. Halbuki öncesinde görüs aldik herkesten ve öyle hazirladik. Biz genellikle her konudaki düzenlemelerde önceden görüsleri aliyoruz. Bu yönetmelik de, varsa görüsü olan bildirsin diye, 3 hafta kadar görüslere açik kaldi.
Bu yönetmelikte, bir çok madde var. Bunlar bugün konumuz degil. Mesela çagri merkezlerine yönelik düzenleme var. Bugün 39.000 çalisani olan çagri merkezlerinin yaridan fazlasi bilisim sektöründe. Yönetmelikte bu 21.000 kisiyi ilgilendiren ve bilisim disi düzenleme getirmeyen bir düzenleme yapildi ve bir abone çagri merkezini aradiginda en geç 22 saniyede ulasacak denildi. Ayrica görüsme süresi limitli olacak denildi. Böyle güzel düzenlemeler var.
Bugünkü konumuzdaki madde söyle ifade ediliyor. Internet kullanicilari, güvenli internet hizmetini ücretsiz almalidir maddesi var. Bu madde ile ilgili bize hiç tepki de gelmedi.
Devletteki yapiya bakarsaniz, önce kanun çikar, kanunda maddeler vardir ama detayi açiklamaz. Anayasa da öyledir. Ama bazi konularda yükümlülükler getirir. Bu yükümlülükler nasil yerine getirilecek konusu yönetmeliklerle düzenlenir.
Bu maddeye istinaden TIB, internet baskanligi bir dizi toplantilar yapti. Özellikle 15'in üstünde ve ISP'lerle toplantilar yapildi ve ortak bir metin ortaya çikarildi. Bu konuya özel brifing de verildi. Sonra kurulda bu konu görüsüldü.
Neticede subat ayinda bir düzenleme olarak ortaya çikti. Bizim için siradan bir düzenlemeydi. Bu alternatifti. Bir seçenek getiriyorduk. Isteyen kullanir, istemeyen kullanmaz. Yönetmelikle belirlenen ise, hangi kosullarla kullanilirin belirlenmesi ve ücretsiz olmasiydi.
Yönetmeligi, subatta webe koyduk yayinlandi. Aradan haftalar, aylar geçti. Yani tam 2,5 ay sonra ortaya çikti. Bir anda internete sansür diye ortaya çikti. Hatta bana gazeteciler tarafindan soruldugunda ilk önce hatirlayamadim.
Dedigim gibi siradan bir düzenlemeydi. Tüm abonelere bir uygulama içine almayi degil, seçenlere bilgi verecek bir uygulamaydi.
Mesela kayit disi telefon gibi bir düzenleme degildi. Numara tasima gibi bir seçenekti. Isteyen tasir, istemeyen tasimaz. Biz kosullari sekillendirdik.
Altini tekrar çizerek söylüyorum. Isteyenin kullanacagi, istemeyenin kullanmayacagi bir seçenekti. ISS'ler sistemlerini buna uygun hale getirmek için bir süre istediler. Bu süre 6 aydi.
22 agustostan sonra ne olacak diye bakarsaniz, bugün herkes tek bir profil içinde. Bu profile ilaveten baska bir profil tanimi getiriliyor. Bu güvenli profil. Yaklasik 9,5 milyon internet kullanicisindan isteyenler buna geçecek. Güvenli profile geçenler de 3 tane ana profil seçeçcek. Aile, çocuk, yerli. Hiçbir sey isaret etmezse aile profilini seçmis olacak. Çocuk seçmisse, ISP ona bir sifre verecek. Bu sifre ile girecek.
Temel nokta bu. Geçis ücretsiz olacak. Istdigi takdirde mevcut profiline geri dönecek.
Bir kaç elestiri ile karsilandik. Bunlara cevap verelim;
"Devlet neden yapiyor" denildi? "ISP'ler yapsin" denildi. ISPler simdi de yapabilir, sonra da yapabilir. Devletin belirledigi profili kullanmayacagim diyebilir.
Bu profil uygulamasinin, diger uygulamalardan farki birincisi ücretsiz olacak. Servis saglayicilar bunu ücretsiz temin etmek zorundalar.
Diger yandan mevcut güvenlik profillerinde caydiricilik var. Çikamiyorsunuz. Caniniz isteyince hareket edemiyorsunuz. Girip, çikma rahat degil.
Güvenli profil bizim uygulayacagimiz profil degil. Biz servis saglayici degiliz: Sistem bizim üzerimizden akmiyor. Biz servis saglayicilari ile konusup, bütün servis saglayicilarinin benzeri alt yapiyi hazirlamalarini istiyoruz.
Sorulardan birisi de, simdi oldugu gibi DNS ayarlarinin üzerinden dolasmak mümkün mü? Olacak çünkü bugün neyse o olacak yine.
Tayfun Acarer'in bu açiklamalari sonrasi sözü alan Internet Kurulu Baskani Serhat Özeren konuyla ilgili olarak kisaca sunlari belirtti :
Internet kurulu, kamu ve özel sektörün, ilgili firmalarin yer aldigi bir kurulus. Bu konu son 1 aydir tartisiliyor. Internet Kurulu olarak biz 25 mayista çarsamba günü,i hem internet kurulu üyelerinin, hem de fikri olan akademisyenlerin katilacagi bir çalisma grubu topluyoruz. Sonunda bir rapor hazirlanacak. Hem BTK, hem de Ulastirma Bakanligina tavsiye nitelginde iletecegiz. Mevcut paketlerin içeriginin ne olmasi konusunu da tartisacagiz.
Daha sonra konusan TIB, Internet Baskani Osman Nihat Sen ise sunlari söyledi :
Teknik tarafi ile açiklamalar yapayim. 5651 sayili bir kanun var. Mayis 2007'de resmi gazetede yayinlandi. 6 ay kurulus süresinden sonra, BTK, TIB altinda internet baskanligi kuruldu. Yani 3,5 yillik bir süreçte faaliyetlerimiz var. Bazi konular 5651 ile ilintileniyor.
5651 sayili kanunla, mahkemeler ve kurumumuz belirli içerik olan sitelere erisimi engelleyebiliyorlar. 8 konuyla ilgili resen kapatma karari alabiliyoruz. Mahkeme yurtiçi ya da disi konulardaki sorunlari takip ediyor.
Bu kapsamda BTK kapsaminda bir ihbar merkezi kuruldu. Vatandaslardan her türlü sikayetleri aliyoruz. Internetle ilgili olmayan sorunlari bile anlatabiliyorlar. Çünkü çogu yerde canli insan çikmiyor, biz canli insanla cevap verdigimiz için insanlar ilgili olmayan sorunlari bile bize bildirmeye basladilar.
Dedigim gibi vatandaslarin sikayetlerinden bazilari 5651 kapsamina girmiyor. Mesela "Facebook'da kizimla ilgili sahte profil açilmis, altina çok kötü seyler yazilmis, kizim intihari düsünüyor." Ya da "Filan yerde uyusturucu satiliyor, polise bildirin" ya da "internetim çok yavas" diyorlar.
Çogu yerde, "internete yönelik bir satis sonrasi hizmeti alamiyoruz" diyen vatandaslar var. Var olan yazilimlarda belli bir mantik var. Bu mantik disindaki taleplerinizi karsilamiyor.
Biz de "dünyada ne yapiliyor" arastirmasina girdik. 5 ülkeyi ziyaret ettik. Bazilari ile de yazili ortamdan haberlestik. Ne yaptiklarini arastirdik.
Bizim vatandasimizin interneti yeni tanimalari nedeniyle, internet içerigi ile ilgili çok sikayet var. Aile ve çcouklarla ilgili önlem alinamiyor. Ciddi bir sikayet furyasi basladi. Inhope'a dün itibariyle üye olduk. Inhope kapsaminda sikayet toplayan merkezler var.
Bize 1 haftada gelen sikayet Inhope'a 1 yilda geliyormus. Kendilerine "yilda ne kadar sikayet geliyor?" diye sorduk, Inhope'a 4000 / yil geliyormus ama ülkemizde bazen 1 günde bile 4000 gelebiliyor.
Kullanici ve ebeveynlerin, evde (disarda ya da okulda degil), internet içerigini filtrelemeye yönelik bir ihtiyaçlari var. Alternatifli bir sey olmasini istiyorlar. Aninda degistirmeyi istiyorlar. Ama mevcut filtrelerde geçis yapilamiyor. Ebevynlerin ailelerinden talep edebilecekleri, aninda degistirebilecekleri bir profile ihtiyaç oldugunu, bir çok görüsmeler sonucunda yönetime rapor olarak sunduk.
Tüketici haklari konusunda BTK çalisma yapiyordu. Kullanicilarin "güvenli internet kullanmaya yönelik bir hizmet almasi hakki" var. Böyle bir düzenlemeye gidildi. Burada ekstra hiçbir sey yok.
Hersey hemen su andaki durumla ayni. Ama tepki dogdu. Saniriz birkaç farkli konu birlestirildi (özellikle nisan sonundaki kelime listesi olayi), ikincisi yönetmelik metni çok agir, teknik bir metin (yorumlanmasi gerekiyor).
Vatandaslarin sagliklarini (altin çilek konusunda binlerce sikayet var. Bir tanesi de ölüm sikayeti) düsünmüyorsak, intihari düsündürten sitelerin yayinlanmasini istiyorsak, o zaman bu yönetmeligi çikarmayalim ama toplamda çok ciddi sikayetler var. Bundan dolayi bu metinler ortaya çikti. Farkli farkli çevrelerin katkilariyla olusturuldu."...
Bu konusmalardan sonra gazeteciler sorular sordular.
When a society begins to ban words...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 6:14:51 AM
http://en.rsf.org/turkey-online-censorship-now-bordering-on-29-04-2011,40194.html
Reporters Without Borders
Online censorship now bordering on the ridiculous in Turkey
PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2011. MIS A JOUR LE MONDAY 2 MAY 2011.
..."Reporters Without Borders is both amused and shocked to learn that the High Council for Telecommunications (TIB), Turkey’s Internet regulator, has issued Internet service providers and website hosting companies with a list of 138 keywords that are henceforth to be banned from Turkish Internet. The list was sent out on 27 April.
“If the TIB’s aim is to control pornography, one wonders why first names such as ‘Adrianne’ and ‘Haydar’ or everyday terms such as ‘free’, ‘pic’, ‘fat’ and ‘pregnant’ are on the list of censored words,” Reporters Without Borders said.
“With Turkey already blocking thousands of sites with content that is considered sensitive, the consequences of such keyword filtering could be disastrous for online freedom of expression. The authorities must abandon this scheme and instead reform Law 5651 on the Internet, which makes such arbitrary censorship possible.”
According to the TIB directive, access to websites containing words on the list would in theory be suspended and it would be impossible to create new ones containing them. However, it is not clear how and to what extent the directive will be implemented in practice. The TIB could decide to suppress or block pages for just one blacklisted word. The lack of clarity about this repressive measure is legally unacceptable.
The list, which borders on the ridiculous, includes words such as “etek” (skirt), “baldiz” (sister-in-law) and “hayvan” (animals). It poses serious problems for access to online information. If words such as “free” and “pic” are censored, countless references to freedom and everyday photos will be eliminated from the Turkish Internet.
Referring to legislation governing the right to information, Yaman Akdeniz, a law lecturer at Istanbul’s Bilgi University, has asked the TIB to explain the presence of certain words on the banned list and has demanded access to all the documents and source material used in compiling it. Reporters Without Borders supports his initiative and asks the TIB to respond as quickly as possible.
Turkey is already blocking access to more than 7,000 websites."...
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Turkey forbids ‘forbidden’ from Internet domain names
Thursday, April 28, 2011
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News
A total of 138 words have been banned from Turkish Internet domain names and now tens of thousands of Turkish websites face closure.
The Telecommunications Directorate sent the list to Turkish web-hosting firms on Thursday, ruling the words are not allowed to feature in domain names and websites that do use them will be shut down.
The affect of the decision could see the closure of many website that feature the banned words. For example, the website “donanimalemi.com” (hardwareworld.com) because the domain name has “animal” in it, a banned word and likewise “sanaldestekunitesi.com,” (virtualsupportunit.com) would not be able to operate under its current name because it has “anal” in it; also among the 138 banned words. Websites cannot have the number 31 in their domain names either because it is slang for male masturbation.
Some more banned English words are: “beat,” “escort,” “homemade,” “hot,” “nubile,” “free” and “teen.” Some others in English have different meanings: “pic,” short for picture, is banned because it means “bastard” in Turkish. The past tense of the verb “get” is also banned because “got” means “butt” in Turkish. Haydar, a very common Alevi name for men, is also banned because it means penis in slang.
“Gay” and its Turkish pronunciation “gey,” “çıplak” (naked), “itiraf” (confession), “liseli” (high school student), “nefes” (breath) and “yasak” (forbidden) are some of the other banned words.
(Note from tkm):
When a society begins to ban words, the foundation of though, that very society commits cultural, intellectual, suicide.
This will not be the first time or the last.
We, the Turkish people, from the end of the second world war, have slowly gone through the dealing of the five stages of death of our young Turkish Republic(the first sign is giving the right to build military basses to foreign powers). I liken this to the five stages a person goes through as was first introduced by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book, On Death and Dying.
The five discrete stages:
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4.Depression
5.Acceptance
For historians:
if a revolotion does not get acceptence by the third generation, it is dead!
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On August, 22, 2011, ALL INTERNET WILL BE "FILITERED"(CENSORSHIP ON ALL USERS(and it will be a crime to by-pass this filter).
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS LAW - Law No. 5809 Date of Adoption: 5/11/2008
We, the end users of the Internet, will not know what is baned or illegal
until we get fined, disconnected or imprisoned(by this time our safety is a mute point).
We have two choices,
1. to un-subscribe from our ISPs.
2. do with less.
We(collectivly all internet users liveing in Turkey will not know if We can get to our sites, blogs or other services hence if this blog goes dark you will know way...
regards,
K. Talat Muskara
Reporters Without Borders
Online censorship now bordering on the ridiculous in Turkey
PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2011. MIS A JOUR LE MONDAY 2 MAY 2011.
..."Reporters Without Borders is both amused and shocked to learn that the High Council for Telecommunications (TIB), Turkey’s Internet regulator, has issued Internet service providers and website hosting companies with a list of 138 keywords that are henceforth to be banned from Turkish Internet. The list was sent out on 27 April.
“If the TIB’s aim is to control pornography, one wonders why first names such as ‘Adrianne’ and ‘Haydar’ or everyday terms such as ‘free’, ‘pic’, ‘fat’ and ‘pregnant’ are on the list of censored words,” Reporters Without Borders said.
“With Turkey already blocking thousands of sites with content that is considered sensitive, the consequences of such keyword filtering could be disastrous for online freedom of expression. The authorities must abandon this scheme and instead reform Law 5651 on the Internet, which makes such arbitrary censorship possible.”
According to the TIB directive, access to websites containing words on the list would in theory be suspended and it would be impossible to create new ones containing them. However, it is not clear how and to what extent the directive will be implemented in practice. The TIB could decide to suppress or block pages for just one blacklisted word. The lack of clarity about this repressive measure is legally unacceptable.
The list, which borders on the ridiculous, includes words such as “etek” (skirt), “baldiz” (sister-in-law) and “hayvan” (animals). It poses serious problems for access to online information. If words such as “free” and “pic” are censored, countless references to freedom and everyday photos will be eliminated from the Turkish Internet.
Referring to legislation governing the right to information, Yaman Akdeniz, a law lecturer at Istanbul’s Bilgi University, has asked the TIB to explain the presence of certain words on the banned list and has demanded access to all the documents and source material used in compiling it. Reporters Without Borders supports his initiative and asks the TIB to respond as quickly as possible.
Turkey is already blocking access to more than 7,000 websites."...
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Turkey forbids ‘forbidden’ from Internet domain names
Thursday, April 28, 2011
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News
A total of 138 words have been banned from Turkish Internet domain names and now tens of thousands of Turkish websites face closure.
The Telecommunications Directorate sent the list to Turkish web-hosting firms on Thursday, ruling the words are not allowed to feature in domain names and websites that do use them will be shut down.
The affect of the decision could see the closure of many website that feature the banned words. For example, the website “donanimalemi.com” (hardwareworld.com) because the domain name has “animal” in it, a banned word and likewise “sanaldestekunitesi.com,” (virtualsupportunit.com) would not be able to operate under its current name because it has “anal” in it; also among the 138 banned words. Websites cannot have the number 31 in their domain names either because it is slang for male masturbation.
Some more banned English words are: “beat,” “escort,” “homemade,” “hot,” “nubile,” “free” and “teen.” Some others in English have different meanings: “pic,” short for picture, is banned because it means “bastard” in Turkish. The past tense of the verb “get” is also banned because “got” means “butt” in Turkish. Haydar, a very common Alevi name for men, is also banned because it means penis in slang.
“Gay” and its Turkish pronunciation “gey,” “çıplak” (naked), “itiraf” (confession), “liseli” (high school student), “nefes” (breath) and “yasak” (forbidden) are some of the other banned words.
(Note from tkm):
When a society begins to ban words, the foundation of though, that very society commits cultural, intellectual, suicide.
This will not be the first time or the last.
We, the Turkish people, from the end of the second world war, have slowly gone through the dealing of the five stages of death of our young Turkish Republic(the first sign is giving the right to build military basses to foreign powers). I liken this to the five stages a person goes through as was first introduced by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book, On Death and Dying.
The five discrete stages:
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4.Depression
5.Acceptance
For historians:
if a revolotion does not get acceptence by the third generation, it is dead!
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On August, 22, 2011, ALL INTERNET WILL BE "FILITERED"(CENSORSHIP ON ALL USERS(and it will be a crime to by-pass this filter).
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS LAW - Law No. 5809 Date of Adoption: 5/11/2008
We, the end users of the Internet, will not know what is baned or illegal
until we get fined, disconnected or imprisoned(by this time our safety is a mute point).
We have two choices,
1. to un-subscribe from our ISPs.
2. do with less.
We(collectivly all internet users liveing in Turkey will not know if We can get to our sites, blogs or other services hence if this blog goes dark you will know way...
regards,
K. Talat Muskara
Leaks... and facts......
Monday, November 29, 2010 9:36:39 PM
Dear Readers,
I have read some of the content(U S.embassy in Ankara and U.S. consulate in Istanbul.
Aside from the missile and defence business deals(This is really not my field nor should it be(as a simple citizen).
The rest of the content is gossipy, that would make a teenybopper look like a pro. It seems that U.S . Intel is basis on reading and listening to the newspapers , TV and the occasional chat with a local contacts(on U.S. Tax payers money). I will give you an example:
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2004/12/04ANKARA7211.html
From: Wikileaks.org
"E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/14/2029
TAGS: PREL PGOV PINS ECON TU
SUBJECT: ERDOGAN AND AK PARTY AFTER TWO YEARS IN POWER:
TRYING TO GET A GRIP ON THEMSELVES, ON TURKEY, ON EUROPE
(U) Classified by Ambassador Eric Edelman; reasons: E.O.
12958 1.4 (a,b,c,d).
¶1. (C) Summary: PM Erdogan and his ruling AK Party seem to
have a firm grip on power -- if for no other reasons that
there is currently no viable alternative and inertia weighs
heavily in politics. Nevertheless, Erdogan and his party
face enormous challenges if they are successfully to embrace
core principles of open society, carry out EU harmonization,
and develop and implement foreign policies in harmony with
core U.S. interests. End summary." ...
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So, whats new??? What is classified? Ask any one that has lived here
you will get more.
U.S. Tax payers ask where your money is being spent.
Please take all information with common sense and a pinch of salt.
tkm
p.s. Stay focused on the real agenda:
1. the steady march to benevolent authoritarian regime of the new consumerist Islam.
2. systematic destruction of state organs(except the police and military, these are the enforcers of the oligarchy and there puppet government).
3. corruption on all levels.
4. endemic poverty(generations that gave up hope of a meaningful job.
5.forty to fifty per cent unemployment.
6. sixty per cent semi-literacy.
7. one of the highest "cost of living" areas(on local income).
8. the "selling-out" of the middle and lover class by the educated class for a mediocre income and "privileges".
9. eaves-dropping on telephone/cellphone and other electronic devices by official and semi-official entities.(on very shady legal grounds).
10. detention of suspects for two or more years, criminal charges that are 2,500 pages long, leaking of
hearsay to the "newspapers" that are close to the AKP and have mutual business dealings(sub rosa).
The list is long and I am weary....
tkm
p.s. the mass media will try to divert your attention from the real agenda
because of the up-coming elections.
p.p.s I will be taking some time off from bloging(about a month).
I have read some of the content(U S.embassy in Ankara and U.S. consulate in Istanbul.
Aside from the missile and defence business deals(This is really not my field nor should it be(as a simple citizen).
The rest of the content is gossipy, that would make a teenybopper look like a pro. It seems that U.S . Intel is basis on reading and listening to the newspapers , TV and the occasional chat with a local contacts(on U.S. Tax payers money). I will give you an example:
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2004/12/04ANKARA7211.html
From: Wikileaks.org
"E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/14/2029
TAGS: PREL PGOV PINS ECON TU
SUBJECT: ERDOGAN AND AK PARTY AFTER TWO YEARS IN POWER:
TRYING TO GET A GRIP ON THEMSELVES, ON TURKEY, ON EUROPE
(U) Classified by Ambassador Eric Edelman; reasons: E.O.
12958 1.4 (a,b,c,d).
¶1. (C) Summary: PM Erdogan and his ruling AK Party seem to
have a firm grip on power -- if for no other reasons that
there is currently no viable alternative and inertia weighs
heavily in politics. Nevertheless, Erdogan and his party
face enormous challenges if they are successfully to embrace
core principles of open society, carry out EU harmonization,
and develop and implement foreign policies in harmony with
core U.S. interests. End summary." ...
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So, whats new??? What is classified? Ask any one that has lived here
you will get more.
U.S. Tax payers ask where your money is being spent.
Please take all information with common sense and a pinch of salt.
tkm
p.s. Stay focused on the real agenda:
1. the steady march to benevolent authoritarian regime of the new consumerist Islam.
2. systematic destruction of state organs(except the police and military, these are the enforcers of the oligarchy and there puppet government).
3. corruption on all levels.
4. endemic poverty(generations that gave up hope of a meaningful job.
5.forty to fifty per cent unemployment.
6. sixty per cent semi-literacy.
7. one of the highest "cost of living" areas(on local income).
8. the "selling-out" of the middle and lover class by the educated class for a mediocre income and "privileges".
9. eaves-dropping on telephone/cellphone and other electronic devices by official and semi-official entities.(on very shady legal grounds).
10. detention of suspects for two or more years, criminal charges that are 2,500 pages long, leaking of
hearsay to the "newspapers" that are close to the AKP and have mutual business dealings(sub rosa).
The list is long and I am weary....
tkm
p.s. the mass media will try to divert your attention from the real agenda
because of the up-coming elections.
p.p.s I will be taking some time off from bloging(about a month).
From: Outlandish Lies folder...
Saturday, September 25, 2010 11:51:29 AM
(This item goes to the folder:Outlandish Lies), 6,500 internet sites are blocked from Turkish internet users, give or take 200 a day - tkm
http://haber.gazetevatan.com/turkiyede-internet-sansuru-yok/331000/1/Gundem
VATAN
'Türkiye'de internet sansürü yok'
..."Cumhurbaşkanı Gül; Türkiye'de internet sansürü olmadığını, bazı internet sitelerine erişememe konusunun vergi kanunlarının yetersizliğinden kaynaklandığını söyledi.
Columbia Üniversitesi Kütüphane salonunda düzenlenen 'Dünya Liderler Forumu'nda konuşma yapan Cumhurbaşkanı Abdullah Gül, Türkiye'de ifade özgürlüğü konusunda son dönemde inanılmaz bir açılım ve serbestleşme yaşandığını vurguladı.
Medyada artık tekelleşmenin kalktığını ve kendi gündemleri ve güçleri olan pek çok medya grubu bulunduğunu belirten Gül, Türkiye'de 40'tan fazla ulusal, yüzlerce yerel TV kanalı, yüzlerce yerel ve ulusal radyo kanalı olduğunu, internet kullanımının rekor kırdığını dile getirdi."...
http://haber.gazetevatan.com/turkiyede-internet-sansuru-yok/331000/1/Gundem
VATAN
'Türkiye'de internet sansürü yok'
..."Cumhurbaşkanı Gül; Türkiye'de internet sansürü olmadığını, bazı internet sitelerine erişememe konusunun vergi kanunlarının yetersizliğinden kaynaklandığını söyledi.
Columbia Üniversitesi Kütüphane salonunda düzenlenen 'Dünya Liderler Forumu'nda konuşma yapan Cumhurbaşkanı Abdullah Gül, Türkiye'de ifade özgürlüğü konusunda son dönemde inanılmaz bir açılım ve serbestleşme yaşandığını vurguladı.
Medyada artık tekelleşmenin kalktığını ve kendi gündemleri ve güçleri olan pek çok medya grubu bulunduğunu belirten Gül, Türkiye'de 40'tan fazla ulusal, yüzlerce yerel TV kanalı, yüzlerce yerel ve ulusal radyo kanalı olduğunu, internet kullanımının rekor kırdığını dile getirdi."...
Step by Step...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 11:28:32 AM
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2010/09/147057.htm
Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Bureau of Public Affairs, Bureau of Public Affairs: Press Relations Office, Daily Press Briefings,
Daily Press Briefing - September 13, 2010
Philip J. Crowley
Assistant Secretary
Daily Press Briefing
Washington, DC
September 13, 2010
(excerpted by tkm)
"...
QUESTION: Another subject? P.J., on Turkey, have you got anything to say about the referendum which happened yesterday?
MR. CROWLEY: Well, this was an opportunity for the people of Turkey to have a strong voice in the future direction of their vibrant democracy. There was a very large turnout. We hope that through these reforms, it will further enhance Turkey’s democratic processes and human rights protection.
QUESTION: So do you disagree with the secularists’ notion that the changing of the way the judges have the authority to issue it is actually sort of deflating or defanging the judiciary from its ability to oversee the executive?
MR. CROWLEY: Well, again, this was a choice for the Turkish people, and there was a very strong, decisive vote to move towards greater civilian oversight of these democratic institutions. We respect that statement by the Turkish people. And we hope that the government will, again, use this mandate to deepen democratic processes in Turkey as well as guarantee human rights protections.
QUESTION: They also accused the Justice and Development Party that has accused parliament to drive a hidden Islamic agenda. What is your assessment of that?
MR. CROWLEY: Well, I mean, there – I understand that there are historical forces competing in Turkey, but again, this was a very strong statement by the Turkish people as part of a referendum where they had the opportunity to lend their voice to the future direction of their country. We respect that.
QUESTION: Have you heard that this will help the Turkey to join the EU?
MR. CROWLEY: We certainly encourage Turkey’s membership in the EU, and I think we note that there has been a favorable reaction in Europe to these developments."...
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http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/fule/headlines/news/2010/09/20100913_en.htm
European Commission
The Commissioners,
2010-2014 - Štefan Füle
Commission welcomes result of referendum in Turkey
"The Commission welcomes the approval, by the Turkish people, of the Constitutional reforms in the referendum which took place on 12 September. It demonstrates the continued commitment of Turkish citizens to reforms in view of enhancing their rights and freedoms. As we consistently said in the past months, these reforms are a step in the right direction as they address a number of long-standing priorities in Turkey's efforts towards fully complying with the accession criteria. [...]"
However, their impact on the ground will depend on their actual implementation. A number of implementing laws will be needed and we will follow their preparation very closely. Meanwhile, we encourage the Turkish government to show utmost transparency as well as a spirit of dialogue on the substance of this implementing legislation.
We share the views of many in Turkey that the 12 September vote needs to be followed by other much needed reforms to address the remaining priorities in the area of fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression and freedom of religion. In this respect, we agree with those across the political spectrum in Turkey who believe that a new civilian Constitution would provide a solid base for a sustained development of democracy in Turkey, in line with European standards and the EU accession criteria.
Finally, the Commission emphasises that any future constitutional changes should be prepared through the broadest possible consultation, involving all political parties and civil society in a timely manner and a spirit of dialogue and compromise."
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(I am confused, this was a "national" referendum for the people of Turkey and NOT THE U.S. EMPIRE AND European Union(on the road to being a minor empire).
Silly me, we are one of the many vassal states(*) of a united Global Oligarchy(advertised and sold as the Global economy).
tkm
P.S. Empires need rules and laws to protect themselves from the
peoples and lands they occupy hence the multi-tiered systems of laws.
P.P.S. Elections, referendums and plebiscites are to legitimatize and to complicit as many people as possible, it is a defensive action.
The oligarchy can turn around and say "all of you chose....".
This argument is valid for those who created the 12, Sep. 1980 coup.
The people that want legal and or moral redress will have to put the whole society on trial(will make great TV shows, sell a lot of newspapers, books and make new personalities BUT will be a travesty of the law).
Also, how many of the Eczacibasi, Sabanci, Koç, etc, etc... and the less well known "Baba"lar will go to jail???
And the many heads of state that gave the green light, both
European, American and in the neighbored?
Cold revenge gets very complicated!
This land nor it's people need this path.
We need: meaningful jobs, inexpensive housing, enough food to fill
our stomachs, a clean environment and a happy life!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassal_state
* ..."A vassal state is any state that is subordinate to another. The vassal in these cases is the ruler, rather than the state itself. Being a vassal most commonly implies providing military assistance to the dominant state when requested to do so; it sometimes implies paying tribute, but a state which does so is better described as a tributary state.
Today, more common terms are puppet state, protectorate or associated state."...
Who does your member of parliament represent you or the highest bidder?...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 8:23:15 PM
From:
http://www.edri.org/
European Digital Right
French Authority Wants Users To Install Spyware On Their Computers
25 August, 2010 » Intellectual Property Enforcement
Hadopi (the French Authority for the implementation of the 3 strikes law) did not make public the document regarding the draft specifications of the security measures for the Internet (part of the three strikes system), although the document should lay at the basis of a public consultation.
However, under the pretext that the document was a preparatory one, the authority decided to treat it as confidential. The website Numerama.com has made the document public on the basis of the right to information and having in view that a public consultation should rely on a public document and not a confidential one.
According to the document, French Internet users could soon be required to install spyware on their PCs tracking down their searching habits and analysing the applications installed on their PCs, in order to prevent "file-sharing piracy".
The three strikes law came into force in June 2010 and it is still unclear what technical measures will be used to apply the scheme. According to the leaked document, Hadopi's spyware, that could be included in an antivirus and/or parental control solution, would log Internet usage on a certain PC with a clear text log file and an encrypted log file, that could be sent to Hadopi in case of a complaint.
The log files that are supposed to be kept encrypted for a year, should include detailed information regarding the date and time when certain applications were launched and the search for keywords that are blacklisted.
There will be several types of lists such as a black list of the sites forbidden by court order, a gray list of the suspicious applications, a gray list of suspicious key-words and a white list of the sites with a legal offer.
The document states that the respective solution should have a minimum effect upon the performances of the equipment, be easy to install and use, be available under an open source licence to all operating systems and not allow transmission of data to a third party. The registration of navigation or downloading history will be forbidden. Also, the use of the software would have to be voluntary, and the account holders would have the possibility to disable the application at will.
La Quadrature du Net has condemned the proposal and its spokesman Jérémie Zimmermann stated that it was worrying that "the government may seriously consider these log functions, recording the slightest facts and gestures of the users, and extending the system to all future devices".
Hadopi decided to explain the three strikes system by distributing during weekends 20-22 and 27-29 August, 260 000 information flyers to drivers coming back from their vacation, at toll points on France's motorways.
Exclusive: Hadopi secret document on securing means (only in French, 30.07.2010)
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/16363-exclusif-le-document-secret-de-...
Securing: Hadopi, future referee of a "box" match? (only in French, 30.07.2010)
http://www.ecrans.fr/Securisation-Hadopi-futur-arbitre,10526.html
Hadopi Gone Wild: France Plans Spyware for Three Strikes (4.08.2010)
http://newteevee.com/2010/08/04/hadopi-gone-wild-france-plans-spyware-...
Hadopi: leaflets distributed at the toll posts this week-end (only in French, 20.08.2010)
http://www.01net.com/editorial/519882/hadopi-des-tracts-distribues-aux...
http://www.edri.org/
European Digital Right
French Authority Wants Users To Install Spyware On Their Computers
25 August, 2010 » Intellectual Property Enforcement
Hadopi (the French Authority for the implementation of the 3 strikes law) did not make public the document regarding the draft specifications of the security measures for the Internet (part of the three strikes system), although the document should lay at the basis of a public consultation.
However, under the pretext that the document was a preparatory one, the authority decided to treat it as confidential. The website Numerama.com has made the document public on the basis of the right to information and having in view that a public consultation should rely on a public document and not a confidential one.
According to the document, French Internet users could soon be required to install spyware on their PCs tracking down their searching habits and analysing the applications installed on their PCs, in order to prevent "file-sharing piracy".
The three strikes law came into force in June 2010 and it is still unclear what technical measures will be used to apply the scheme. According to the leaked document, Hadopi's spyware, that could be included in an antivirus and/or parental control solution, would log Internet usage on a certain PC with a clear text log file and an encrypted log file, that could be sent to Hadopi in case of a complaint.
The log files that are supposed to be kept encrypted for a year, should include detailed information regarding the date and time when certain applications were launched and the search for keywords that are blacklisted.
There will be several types of lists such as a black list of the sites forbidden by court order, a gray list of the suspicious applications, a gray list of suspicious key-words and a white list of the sites with a legal offer.
The document states that the respective solution should have a minimum effect upon the performances of the equipment, be easy to install and use, be available under an open source licence to all operating systems and not allow transmission of data to a third party. The registration of navigation or downloading history will be forbidden. Also, the use of the software would have to be voluntary, and the account holders would have the possibility to disable the application at will.
La Quadrature du Net has condemned the proposal and its spokesman Jérémie Zimmermann stated that it was worrying that "the government may seriously consider these log functions, recording the slightest facts and gestures of the users, and extending the system to all future devices".
Hadopi decided to explain the three strikes system by distributing during weekends 20-22 and 27-29 August, 260 000 information flyers to drivers coming back from their vacation, at toll points on France's motorways.
Exclusive: Hadopi secret document on securing means (only in French, 30.07.2010)
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/16363-exclusif-le-document-secret-de-...
Securing: Hadopi, future referee of a "box" match? (only in French, 30.07.2010)
http://www.ecrans.fr/Securisation-Hadopi-futur-arbitre,10526.html
Hadopi Gone Wild: France Plans Spyware for Three Strikes (4.08.2010)
http://newteevee.com/2010/08/04/hadopi-gone-wild-france-plans-spyware-...
Hadopi: leaflets distributed at the toll posts this week-end (only in French, 20.08.2010)
http://www.01net.com/editorial/519882/hadopi-des-tracts-distribues-aux...
LIES THE GOVERNMENT TOLD YOU by Andrew P. Napolitano
Monday, August 9, 2010 8:58:30 PM
From the book:
LIES THE GOVERNMENT TOLD YOU
Myth, Power, and Deception in American History
by Andrew P. Napolitano
(ISBN 978-1-59555-266-2)
..."Truth is identity between intellect and reality. A lie is a knowing and intentional violation of the truth. The difference between the two often depends on whether one is in the governing class or the governed class.
We have all come to expect some lying in our lives and have engaged in lying to some extent; perhaps to avoid or postpone a crisis, or to serve a higher good, or because telling a lie was easier under the circumstances than telling the truth, and the consequences of the lie were harmless. This is all normal human behavior, and it can range from being critical to existence to being innocuous.
If a ship captain is secretly ferrying innocents from slavery to freedom, and his ship is stopped on the high seas by agents of the government that enslaved his passengers, should he lie about their true identities? When a coworker asks how you are during a miserable day, should you lie to avoid a painful but harmless and useless conversation? Can silence be a lie when one has a lawful or moral duty to tell the truth? These are issues with which we wrestle almost every day.
In a free society, we expect the government to wrestle with them as well, but it does not; it is not concerned with truth. The government lies to us regularly, consistently, systematically, and daily on matters great and small, but it prosecutes and jails those who lie to it. For example, a male drug dealer with a heavy foreign accent and minimal understanding of English stupidly tells an FBI agent that his name is Nancy Reagan, and he is arrested, prosecuted, and jailed for lying to the government. Another FBI agent tells the cultural guru Martha Stewart, in an informal conversation in the presence of others, that she is not the target of a federal criminal probe, and she replies that she did not sell a certain stock on a certain day. They both lied, but she went to jail and the FBI agent kept his job.
What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?
Throughout this book, I will suggest answers to these and similar questions. As I do so, you’ll see a chip on my shoulder. I am angry that we allow the government to lie to us, that we expect it to do so, and even take comfort in the illusions created thereby. When I told friends about the title of this book, I frequently joked that it would be four thousand pages in length. Most laughed; but none doubted that there have been enough government lies to consume that many printed pages.
When you recall that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States mandate a free and open society, one in which the government works for us, you can see where the chip on my shoulder came from. It is morally reprehensible for any government to lie to anyone over whom it has lawful authority. But in a free and open society where we are the employers, and the government workers are the employees, every government employee—from a public school janitor to a state governor, from a soldier to an FBI agent, from a cop to the President—has a lawful obligation to be truthful to his or her employers, and it is utterly and completely and unconditionally unacceptable to treat as normal that they should lie to us."...
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I recommend this book.
tkm
p.s. Not a light read!
LIES THE GOVERNMENT TOLD YOU
Myth, Power, and Deception in American History
by Andrew P. Napolitano
(ISBN 978-1-59555-266-2)
..."Truth is identity between intellect and reality. A lie is a knowing and intentional violation of the truth. The difference between the two often depends on whether one is in the governing class or the governed class.
We have all come to expect some lying in our lives and have engaged in lying to some extent; perhaps to avoid or postpone a crisis, or to serve a higher good, or because telling a lie was easier under the circumstances than telling the truth, and the consequences of the lie were harmless. This is all normal human behavior, and it can range from being critical to existence to being innocuous.
If a ship captain is secretly ferrying innocents from slavery to freedom, and his ship is stopped on the high seas by agents of the government that enslaved his passengers, should he lie about their true identities? When a coworker asks how you are during a miserable day, should you lie to avoid a painful but harmless and useless conversation? Can silence be a lie when one has a lawful or moral duty to tell the truth? These are issues with which we wrestle almost every day.
In a free society, we expect the government to wrestle with them as well, but it does not; it is not concerned with truth. The government lies to us regularly, consistently, systematically, and daily on matters great and small, but it prosecutes and jails those who lie to it. For example, a male drug dealer with a heavy foreign accent and minimal understanding of English stupidly tells an FBI agent that his name is Nancy Reagan, and he is arrested, prosecuted, and jailed for lying to the government. Another FBI agent tells the cultural guru Martha Stewart, in an informal conversation in the presence of others, that she is not the target of a federal criminal probe, and she replies that she did not sell a certain stock on a certain day. They both lied, but she went to jail and the FBI agent kept his job.
What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?
Throughout this book, I will suggest answers to these and similar questions. As I do so, you’ll see a chip on my shoulder. I am angry that we allow the government to lie to us, that we expect it to do so, and even take comfort in the illusions created thereby. When I told friends about the title of this book, I frequently joked that it would be four thousand pages in length. Most laughed; but none doubted that there have been enough government lies to consume that many printed pages.
When you recall that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States mandate a free and open society, one in which the government works for us, you can see where the chip on my shoulder came from. It is morally reprehensible for any government to lie to anyone over whom it has lawful authority. But in a free and open society where we are the employers, and the government workers are the employees, every government employee—from a public school janitor to a state governor, from a soldier to an FBI agent, from a cop to the President—has a lawful obligation to be truthful to his or her employers, and it is utterly and completely and unconditionally unacceptable to treat as normal that they should lie to us."...
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I recommend this book.
tkm
p.s. Not a light read!
Give me a referendum to build a dream on...
Monday, August 2, 2010 1:40:48 AM
two songs, loosely tweaked:
Louis Armstrong
"A Kiss To Build A Dream On"
Songwriters:
Harry Ruby
Bert Kalmar
Oscar Hammerstein
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Give me a referendum to build a dream on
And my imagination will thrive upon that
referendum Sweetheart, I ask no more than this
A referendum to build a dream on
Give me a referendum before you leave me
And my imagination will feed my hungry heart
Leave me one thing before we part
A referendum to build a dream on
When I’m alone with my fancies...i’ll be with you
Weaving referendums...making believe they’re true
Give me your referendum for just a moment
And my imagination will make that moment live
Give me what you alone can give
A referendum to build a dream on
When I’m alone with my fancies...i’ll be with you
Weaving referendums...making believe they’re true
Give me a referendum to build a dream on
And my imagination will thrive upon that referendum
Ah sweetheart, I ask no more than this
A referendum to build a dream on...
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The Beatles "Birthday" song:
You say it's your referendum
It's my referendum too yeah...
They say it's your referendum
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your referendum
Happy referendum to you.
Yes we're going to a referendum
Yes we're going to a referendum
Yes we're going to a referendum.
I would like you to dance--referendum
Take a cha-cha-cha-chance-referendum
I would like you to dance--referendum
You say it's your referendum
Well it's my referendum too yeah...
You say it's your referendum
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your referendum
Happy referendum to you.
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Louis Armstrong
"A Kiss To Build A Dream On"
Songwriters:
Harry Ruby
Bert Kalmar
Oscar Hammerstein
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Give me a referendum to build a dream on
And my imagination will thrive upon that
referendum Sweetheart, I ask no more than this
A referendum to build a dream on
Give me a referendum before you leave me
And my imagination will feed my hungry heart
Leave me one thing before we part
A referendum to build a dream on
When I’m alone with my fancies...i’ll be with you
Weaving referendums...making believe they’re true
Give me your referendum for just a moment
And my imagination will make that moment live
Give me what you alone can give
A referendum to build a dream on
When I’m alone with my fancies...i’ll be with you
Weaving referendums...making believe they’re true
Give me a referendum to build a dream on
And my imagination will thrive upon that referendum
Ah sweetheart, I ask no more than this
A referendum to build a dream on...
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The Beatles "Birthday" song:
You say it's your referendum
It's my referendum too yeah...
They say it's your referendum
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your referendum
Happy referendum to you.
Yes we're going to a referendum
Yes we're going to a referendum
Yes we're going to a referendum.
I would like you to dance--referendum
Take a cha-cha-cha-chance-referendum
I would like you to dance--referendum
You say it's your referendum
Well it's my referendum too yeah...
You say it's your referendum
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your referendum
Happy referendum to you.
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NO COMMENT...
Thursday, June 24, 2010 3:33:41 PM
http://www9.gazetevatan.com/youtube-tc-ile-mucadeleye-giristi/312999/43/Teknoloji
Vatan
Hükümet adına söz alan Ulaştırma Bakanı Yıldırım, günümüzde bilgiyi en iyi şekilde toplayan ülkelerin ileriye gittiğini, Türkiye'de de bilgi toplumunu güçlendirmek için kendilerinin de çaba sarf ettiğini söyledi. Bilgi toplumunda internetin öneminin yadsınamayacağını anlatan Yıldırım, bu kapsamda hızlı internet erişimini yaygınlaştırdıklarını ifade etti.
İnternetin ilaç gibi, yararı olduğu kadar zararının bulunduğuna dikkati çeken Yıldırım, bu nedenle internetin temiz kullanımını sağlamayı hedeflediklerini kaydetti. Bakan Yıldırım, internette suç ve suça özendirici yayınların yüzde 98'inin dış kaynaklı olduğunu, bu tehlikeyi önlemek için bazı önlemler almak zorunda olduklarını dile getirdi.
Youtube paylaşım sitesinin Atatürk'e hakaret içeren yayınından dolayı, mahkeme kararıyla erişime engellendiğini anımsatan Yıldırım, bunun karşılığında söz konusu sitenin yetkililerinin, cezayı durdurmak için bir üst mahkemeye bile itiraz etme gereğini duymadığını vurguladı.
Yıldırım, söz konusu paylaşım sitesinin birçok ülkede güvenlik belgesi almasına, vergi dairelerine kayıt yaptırmasına rağmen Türkiye'de bunları yerine getirmemekte ısrar ettiğini anlattı.
Türkiye'nin bunu kabul edip boyun eğmeyeceğini belirten Yıldırım, "Bu paylaşım sitesi bir çok ülkede yerli sürüm yapıyor ama Türkiye'de yapmıyor. Yine dünyanın birçok ülkesinde adli makamlarla işbirliği yapıyor ama ülkemizde buna yanaşmıyor. Bir siyasi partinin genel başkanı ile ilgili yayımlanan videonun yayından kaldırılması için arkadaşlarımız girişimde bulundu, telefonlara bile çıkmadılar. Bu kadar hukuk tanımaz siteyi hararetle savunanlar var. Bunu kınıyorum" diye konuştu.
Söz konusu sitenin, IP giriş numaraları aracılığıyla Google'e girişleri de yavaşlatmaya, bu yolla tepkileri artırıp Türkiye'yi dize getirmeye çalıştığını belirten Yıldırım, "Bu site, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ile bir mücadeleye girişti. Türkiye asla bu durumu kabul etmeyecektir. Bu paylaşım sitesinin direktiflerine göre tavır almak yerine, bu sitenin hukuk kurallarına saygılı olmasını sağlamalıyız" dedi.
Mutlu Tönbekici Got her Mojo back...
Saturday, June 19, 2010 2:40:23 PM
http://haber.gazetevatan.com/haberdetay.asp?tarih=11.11.2007&Newsid=312032&Categoryid=4&wid=156
(To be read while listening to Para Para Para* sung by Ajda(Former
Deva) - my comments in dark red - tkm ))
Vatan
Mutlu Tönbekici
İnternete yasak koyana da ....!
Ufaktan edepsizleştiğim için özür di... Yok ya! Niye özür dileyecekmişim? Özür mözür dilemiyorum. Zira yapılan hukuksuzluğun haddi hesabı artık kalmadı.
(hukuk in Turkey - high amount of delusion)
44 IP daha erişime kapandı. YouTube ile bağlantılı olduğu için haşırt diye bir IP aralığını da geri zekalı yerine konan Türkiyeli internet kullanıcılarına kapatıldı. Bunun da sonuçlarını daha doğrusu yan etkilerini önümüzdeki günlerde göreceğiz.
Fakat geri zekalı yerine konmanın da tabi bir haddi/hududu/istiabı var.
Bugün İlker Akgüngör’ün hazırladığı haberi dikkatle okumanızı öneririm. Sakin atın çiftesi pek olur misali, Türk internetçileri harikulade bir eylem yapmışlar.
Ulaştırma Bakanlığı’nın, Telekomünikasyon İletişim Başkanlığı’nın, Ali Nesin’in Matematik Köyü’ne destek olmayan (ama kendi site güvenliğini bile beceremeyen) Tübitak’ın sitelerine dün sabah 01.00’den 11.00’e kadar girilemedi.
Veya sansürcü kafanın jargonuyla “erişime kapandı”.
Erişime kapatanlar: İsmi belirsiz (veya lazım değil) bir grup hacker. Daha doğrusu öyle imiş. Ne oluyor ne bitiyor derken bir bildiri yayınladılar. “Amacımız kurumların çalışmasını engellemek değil. O nedenle sınırlı bir saat için bu eylemi yaptık, öğleye sarkıtmadık. Amacımız dikkat çekmek, nasıl oluyormuş sansürcülük, nasıl oluyormuş erişime engellenmek görün istedik..”
Cümleler böyle değil ama mana bu. Tübitak’ın sitesini de kurum içerisinde yer alan, kamu güvenliğini hedef alan BOME (Bilgisayar Olaylarına Müdahale Ekibi) yapısının fonksiyonsuzluğunu ve vizyonsuzluğunu gözler önüne sermek için engellemişler. “Kamu Bilgi Güvenliği daha kendi güvenliğini sağlayamayan bu tarz kurumların tekeline bırakılmamalıdır” diyorlar.
İşte bu kadar...
İnternetle ilgili eylem internette yapılmalıdır.
(WHY??? - GO protest in the streets! To the Barricades, Comrades! and do not forget the laptops...)
Kim bu kişiler bilmiyoruz. Ama belli ki adi hacker değiller. Düzgün çocuklar olduğu tahmin ediliyor. Kimsenin malını çalmak, hayatını karartmak gibi niyetleri olmadığı, bu işlerin adamı olmadıkları belli.
Bunun devamı da gelecek. Zira bu tarz bir eylem yapabilecek on binlerce insan var. Türkiye artık eskisi gibi değil. Memlekette (bir dolu yeteneksiz odunun yanı sıra) hem namuslu hem yetenekli çok insan var. Fakat dünyanın en munis kedisi bile köşeye sıkışınca tırnaklarını çıkartacaktır.
Bu, tam da böyle olmuştur. Bugüne kadar bilgilerini ve yeteneklerini kötü niyetle kullanmayan kişiler bundan böyle bunu yapacaklardır. Suçmuş, cezası hapismiş umurlarında olmayacaktır. Bu kadar zırva bir yasak için eylem yapanlar da yakalanamayacaktır zira işi bilenler yakalamak isteyenlere yardım ETMEYECEKTİR! Ve yakalamak isteyenlerin de yeterince yetenekli olmadıklarını biliyoruz (çok şükür).
(Ohh please.. logic and or(both)thinking in our civil servents... your asking alot. A doorstop has more function!)
Neden bu inat anlaşılır gibi değil. Durmadan halkıyla didişen yöneticilere mahkum olmak zorunda mıyız? Kendimi bildim bileli bu böyle. Kitabı yasakladıklarını sanırlar, millet fotokopiyle çoğaltır. Televizyonu yasakladıklarını sanırlar millet uyduyla, o da olmadı, başka ülkelerde kasete çektirip yine izler. Yasak işlemez. İnternet çıktığından beri hepten işlemiyor. YouTube’a yeni erişim engellerine rağmen girmenin (ben bile!) beş altı yolunu biliyorum. Ben bile diyorum zira çok da süper bir internet kullanıcısı değilim. Fakat devletim sayesinde kurt olacağım yakında.
Ama Google servislerine erişememek yüzünden uğradığımız zararları kim telafi edecek bilemiyorum.
(One law governs and that is the Law of Nature(as some people know as "law of the Jungle)
(Mrs./Miss/Ms.Tönbekici ...as the song indecates PARA PARA PARA
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*Para Para Para (Rüçhan Çamay)
Gariptir insanlar oğlu neler yaratmış
Yarattığı her bugün dünü aratmış
Aklı ile herşeyin sırrını bulmuş
Kendi yarattığı putun kölesi olmuş
Para, para, para
Varlığı bir dert yokluğu yara
Çerçeveletir kimi asar duvara
Kimi onu bulunca dosdoğru bara
Kimi sıkar elinde çıkarır suyunu
Kiminin değiştirir güzel huyunu
Para, para, para
Varlığı bir dert yokluğu yara
Üç şey demiş Napolyon "Para, para, para"
İnsanlar öldülür onu uğruna
Servetin ulaşsa da yüz milyonlara
Kefenin cebine sığmaz bir tek lira
Unutmayın herşeyi yaratan biziz
Matbaada parayı basan ellerimiz
Sanmayın onun hükmü değişmez yasa
Para neye yarardı eller çalışmasa
Para, para, para
Varlığı bir dert yokluğu yara
Para, para, para
Yokluğu başka dert fazlası bela
Para, para, para
Gömeceğim seni bir gün mezara
(To be read while listening to Para Para Para* sung by Ajda(Former
Deva) - my comments in dark red - tkm ))
Vatan
Mutlu Tönbekici
İnternete yasak koyana da ....!
Ufaktan edepsizleştiğim için özür di... Yok ya! Niye özür dileyecekmişim? Özür mözür dilemiyorum. Zira yapılan hukuksuzluğun haddi hesabı artık kalmadı.
(hukuk in Turkey - high amount of delusion)
44 IP daha erişime kapandı. YouTube ile bağlantılı olduğu için haşırt diye bir IP aralığını da geri zekalı yerine konan Türkiyeli internet kullanıcılarına kapatıldı. Bunun da sonuçlarını daha doğrusu yan etkilerini önümüzdeki günlerde göreceğiz.
Fakat geri zekalı yerine konmanın da tabi bir haddi/hududu/istiabı var.
Bugün İlker Akgüngör’ün hazırladığı haberi dikkatle okumanızı öneririm. Sakin atın çiftesi pek olur misali, Türk internetçileri harikulade bir eylem yapmışlar.
Ulaştırma Bakanlığı’nın, Telekomünikasyon İletişim Başkanlığı’nın, Ali Nesin’in Matematik Köyü’ne destek olmayan (ama kendi site güvenliğini bile beceremeyen) Tübitak’ın sitelerine dün sabah 01.00’den 11.00’e kadar girilemedi.
Veya sansürcü kafanın jargonuyla “erişime kapandı”.
Erişime kapatanlar: İsmi belirsiz (veya lazım değil) bir grup hacker. Daha doğrusu öyle imiş. Ne oluyor ne bitiyor derken bir bildiri yayınladılar. “Amacımız kurumların çalışmasını engellemek değil. O nedenle sınırlı bir saat için bu eylemi yaptık, öğleye sarkıtmadık. Amacımız dikkat çekmek, nasıl oluyormuş sansürcülük, nasıl oluyormuş erişime engellenmek görün istedik..”
Cümleler böyle değil ama mana bu. Tübitak’ın sitesini de kurum içerisinde yer alan, kamu güvenliğini hedef alan BOME (Bilgisayar Olaylarına Müdahale Ekibi) yapısının fonksiyonsuzluğunu ve vizyonsuzluğunu gözler önüne sermek için engellemişler. “Kamu Bilgi Güvenliği daha kendi güvenliğini sağlayamayan bu tarz kurumların tekeline bırakılmamalıdır” diyorlar.
İşte bu kadar...
İnternetle ilgili eylem internette yapılmalıdır.
(WHY??? - GO protest in the streets! To the Barricades, Comrades! and do not forget the laptops...)
Kim bu kişiler bilmiyoruz. Ama belli ki adi hacker değiller. Düzgün çocuklar olduğu tahmin ediliyor. Kimsenin malını çalmak, hayatını karartmak gibi niyetleri olmadığı, bu işlerin adamı olmadıkları belli.
Bunun devamı da gelecek. Zira bu tarz bir eylem yapabilecek on binlerce insan var. Türkiye artık eskisi gibi değil. Memlekette (bir dolu yeteneksiz odunun yanı sıra) hem namuslu hem yetenekli çok insan var. Fakat dünyanın en munis kedisi bile köşeye sıkışınca tırnaklarını çıkartacaktır.
Bu, tam da böyle olmuştur. Bugüne kadar bilgilerini ve yeteneklerini kötü niyetle kullanmayan kişiler bundan böyle bunu yapacaklardır. Suçmuş, cezası hapismiş umurlarında olmayacaktır. Bu kadar zırva bir yasak için eylem yapanlar da yakalanamayacaktır zira işi bilenler yakalamak isteyenlere yardım ETMEYECEKTİR! Ve yakalamak isteyenlerin de yeterince yetenekli olmadıklarını biliyoruz (çok şükür).
(Ohh please.. logic and or(both)thinking in our civil servents... your asking alot. A doorstop has more function!)
Neden bu inat anlaşılır gibi değil. Durmadan halkıyla didişen yöneticilere mahkum olmak zorunda mıyız? Kendimi bildim bileli bu böyle. Kitabı yasakladıklarını sanırlar, millet fotokopiyle çoğaltır. Televizyonu yasakladıklarını sanırlar millet uyduyla, o da olmadı, başka ülkelerde kasete çektirip yine izler. Yasak işlemez. İnternet çıktığından beri hepten işlemiyor. YouTube’a yeni erişim engellerine rağmen girmenin (ben bile!) beş altı yolunu biliyorum. Ben bile diyorum zira çok da süper bir internet kullanıcısı değilim. Fakat devletim sayesinde kurt olacağım yakında.
Ama Google servislerine erişememek yüzünden uğradığımız zararları kim telafi edecek bilemiyorum.
(One law governs and that is the Law of Nature(as some people know as "law of the Jungle)
(Mrs./Miss/Ms.Tönbekici ...as the song indecates PARA PARA PARA
------------------------------
*Para Para Para (Rüçhan Çamay)
Gariptir insanlar oğlu neler yaratmış
Yarattığı her bugün dünü aratmış
Aklı ile herşeyin sırrını bulmuş
Kendi yarattığı putun kölesi olmuş
Para, para, para
Varlığı bir dert yokluğu yara
Çerçeveletir kimi asar duvara
Kimi onu bulunca dosdoğru bara
Kimi sıkar elinde çıkarır suyunu
Kiminin değiştirir güzel huyunu
Para, para, para
Varlığı bir dert yokluğu yara
Üç şey demiş Napolyon "Para, para, para"
İnsanlar öldülür onu uğruna
Servetin ulaşsa da yüz milyonlara
Kefenin cebine sığmaz bir tek lira
Unutmayın herşeyi yaratan biziz
Matbaada parayı basan ellerimiz
Sanmayın onun hükmü değişmez yasa
Para neye yarardı eller çalışmasa
Para, para, para
Varlığı bir dert yokluğu yara
Para, para, para
Yokluğu başka dert fazlası bela
Para, para, para
Gömeceğim seni bir gün mezara
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
Friday, June 4, 2010 4:24:18 PM
http://teknoloji.milliyet.com.tr/turkiye-de-internet-coktu-/internet/haberdetay/04.06.2010/1246591/default.htm
Milliyet
Kullanicilar özellikle 3 Haziran'dan bu yana internet baglantisinda inanilmaz bir yavaslama ve sikinti hissediyor.
Türkiye genelinde Google'in ana arama sayfasindaki hizmetlere, örnegin Google Translate hizmetine erisimde sorun yasaniyor. Ayni sekilde zaten yasakli olan YouTube'a alternatif yöntemlerle erisen kullanicilar erisemiyor. Esas sikinti ise Translate'de oldugu gibi Google hizmetlerine erisimde yasanan sorunlar.
Dahasi sayisiz yerli ve yabanci internet sitesine erisim inanilmaz derecede yavaslayabiliyor, ya da bazen baglanti saglanamiyor.
Türk internet kullanicilarini çileden çikartan bu durumun sebepleri konusunda ortaya farkli görüsler sürüldü. Ancak isin gerçek sebebi, resmi olarak ortaya çikti...
Iste açiklamasi
Bu durum, internet servis saglayicilara yollanan ve Biri'nin de müsterileriyle paylastigi bilgiler sayesinde açikliga kavustu.
3 Haziran 2010 tarihinde Telekomünikasyon Iletisim Baskanligi'ndan internet servis saglayicilara iletilen karar ile aydinlandi.
Google'a ait bazi IP'lere, detayli açiklanmayan hukuksal nedenlerden dolayi erisimin engellenecegi belirtildi. Ancak Google'a ait IP'lerin engellenmesi Türk kullanicilarini çok sert bir sekilde vuruyor.
Google'in internetin vazgeçilmez bir parçasi haline gelmesiyle birlikte, Google'a ait IP adreslerinin engellenmesi, Google hizmetlerinin bir kismina erisilmesini engelliyor veya yavaslatiyor.
Tam bir yasak degil ama...
Kisitli Google yasagi Türkiye'de interneti çok derinden vuruyor:
- Google web sitesine erisimde sorun yasanmasi,
- Reklam vb. analiz verisi için web sitelerinde Google analytics, Google maps gibi Google uygulamalarini kullanan portal veya web sitelerinde erisimlerin yavaslamasi,
- Google Toolbar yüklü bilgisayarlarda bazi sitelere yavas erisme,
- Web siteleri dahilinde "google search" kullanan alan adlarina erisimde yavaslama,
- Firmalara ait Google uygulamalariyla entegre ya da Google Search'e dayali bir takim uygulamalarinizin bu erisim kisitlamasindan etkilenmesi söz konusudur.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. - George Orwell
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. - George Orwell
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. - George Orwell
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. - George Orwell
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. - George Orwell
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. - George Orwell
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http://www.turk.internet.com/portal/yazigoster.php?yaziid=28021
www.turk.internet.com
Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Iletisim Kurumu (BTK) 2 gündür sürmekte olan "Google uygulamalar engellendi mi?" sorusuna bir açiklama getirdi ve engelleninin YouTube oldugunu açikladi.
Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Iletisim Kurumu (BTK) 2 gündür sürmekte olan "Google uygulamalar engellendi mi?" sorusuna bir açiklama getirdi ve engelleninin YouTube oldugunu açikladi.
Görüldügü gibi açiklama 2 gün önce, ilk defa turk.internet.com'da yayinlanan durumu[1][2] dogruluyor. Açiklama su sekilde :
Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Iletisim Kurumu Telekomünikasyon Iletisim Baskanligindan Kamuoyuna Duyuru
Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Iletisim Kurumu, Ankara, 04.05.2010
Bazi basin yayin organlarinda, hakkinda erisim engelleme tedbiri uygulanmamis google gibi kimi alan adlari/web siteleri ve hizmetlerinin erisimlerinin engellendigi yönünde yapilan haberler gerçegi yansitmamaktadir.
Tarafimizca tesis edilen islem, kamuoyunun yogun gündemini olusturan Internet adresleriyle ilgili olmayip, Ankara 1. Sulh Ceza Mahkemesinin 05/05/2008 tarihli ve 2008/402 no’lu karari geregi erisimi engelli olan, http://www.youtube.com Internet adresine iliskin IP adreslerinin güncellemesinden ibarettir.
Sonuç olarak http://www.youtube.com a erisim amaciyla kullanilan ve tarafimizca engelleme tedbiri kapsaminda güncellenen IP adreslerinin arkasinda farkli sirketlere ait alan adi veya çesitli hizmetlerin barindirilmasi bu sirketlerin kendi tercihleri ve sorumluluklarindadir.
Dolayisiyla bu hizmetlerden yararlanan Internet kullanicilarinin magduriyetinin çözümü bahse konu hizmetleri sunan sirketlerin elinde bulunmaktadir.
Kamuoyuna saygi ile duyurulur.
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What does:
google translate
google documents
google sites
have to do with youtube???
Why is YouTube being banned to all
Turkish users?
The Internet is not a toy or a nanny for children(parents are used to parking there children in front of the TV, now the very same inept, irresponsible parents are using the Internet as a TV. We are ALL paying for this behavior).
The line of censorship in the name of protecting the user and censorship with the intension of economic gain(e.g. company A wants users to use its own site instead of company B, will try to cripple company B with nuisance law suits, corrupt bureaucrats and politicians to force users to use there sites under the pretense of child porn..., insult to national figures and "Hate Speech" this last one is primarily to protect corrupt people in and out of government(s).
All this already is done in the real world, these same actors are taking there acts to the internet to cover there behinds.
Less under-stood is incompetence[1] in people that do the regulatory work and the highly specialized work.
I invite an inquiry on the numbers of personal and there
competence, a list of the materials(cars, buildings, budgets. Also have they out-sourced work..etc...etc...)
Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Iletisim Kurumu Telekomünikasyon Iletisim Baskanli.
(Your Tax money at work).
This is also a very telling scandal on the level of use,
need of information, and the lack of interest of our "Enlightened class"..
tkm
[1]Incompetence:
lack of competence, ineptitude.
Administrative incompetence, dysfunctional administrative behaviors that hinder attainment of organization goals
Milliyet
Kullanicilar özellikle 3 Haziran'dan bu yana internet baglantisinda inanilmaz bir yavaslama ve sikinti hissediyor.
Türkiye genelinde Google'in ana arama sayfasindaki hizmetlere, örnegin Google Translate hizmetine erisimde sorun yasaniyor. Ayni sekilde zaten yasakli olan YouTube'a alternatif yöntemlerle erisen kullanicilar erisemiyor. Esas sikinti ise Translate'de oldugu gibi Google hizmetlerine erisimde yasanan sorunlar.
Dahasi sayisiz yerli ve yabanci internet sitesine erisim inanilmaz derecede yavaslayabiliyor, ya da bazen baglanti saglanamiyor.
Türk internet kullanicilarini çileden çikartan bu durumun sebepleri konusunda ortaya farkli görüsler sürüldü. Ancak isin gerçek sebebi, resmi olarak ortaya çikti...
Iste açiklamasi
Bu durum, internet servis saglayicilara yollanan ve Biri'nin de müsterileriyle paylastigi bilgiler sayesinde açikliga kavustu.
3 Haziran 2010 tarihinde Telekomünikasyon Iletisim Baskanligi'ndan internet servis saglayicilara iletilen karar ile aydinlandi.
Google'a ait bazi IP'lere, detayli açiklanmayan hukuksal nedenlerden dolayi erisimin engellenecegi belirtildi. Ancak Google'a ait IP'lerin engellenmesi Türk kullanicilarini çok sert bir sekilde vuruyor.
Google'in internetin vazgeçilmez bir parçasi haline gelmesiyle birlikte, Google'a ait IP adreslerinin engellenmesi, Google hizmetlerinin bir kismina erisilmesini engelliyor veya yavaslatiyor.
Tam bir yasak degil ama...
Kisitli Google yasagi Türkiye'de interneti çok derinden vuruyor:
- Google web sitesine erisimde sorun yasanmasi,
- Reklam vb. analiz verisi için web sitelerinde Google analytics, Google maps gibi Google uygulamalarini kullanan portal veya web sitelerinde erisimlerin yavaslamasi,
- Google Toolbar yüklü bilgisayarlarda bazi sitelere yavas erisme,
- Web siteleri dahilinde "google search" kullanan alan adlarina erisimde yavaslama,
- Firmalara ait Google uygulamalariyla entegre ya da Google Search'e dayali bir takim uygulamalarinizin bu erisim kisitlamasindan etkilenmesi söz konusudur.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. - George Orwell
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. - George Orwell
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. - George Orwell
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. - George Orwell
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. - George Orwell
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. - George Orwell
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http://www.turk.internet.com/portal/yazigoster.php?yaziid=28021
www.turk.internet.com
Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Iletisim Kurumu (BTK) 2 gündür sürmekte olan "Google uygulamalar engellendi mi?" sorusuna bir açiklama getirdi ve engelleninin YouTube oldugunu açikladi.
Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Iletisim Kurumu (BTK) 2 gündür sürmekte olan "Google uygulamalar engellendi mi?" sorusuna bir açiklama getirdi ve engelleninin YouTube oldugunu açikladi.
Görüldügü gibi açiklama 2 gün önce, ilk defa turk.internet.com'da yayinlanan durumu[1][2] dogruluyor. Açiklama su sekilde :
Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Iletisim Kurumu Telekomünikasyon Iletisim Baskanligindan Kamuoyuna Duyuru
Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Iletisim Kurumu, Ankara, 04.05.2010
Bazi basin yayin organlarinda, hakkinda erisim engelleme tedbiri uygulanmamis google gibi kimi alan adlari/web siteleri ve hizmetlerinin erisimlerinin engellendigi yönünde yapilan haberler gerçegi yansitmamaktadir.
Tarafimizca tesis edilen islem, kamuoyunun yogun gündemini olusturan Internet adresleriyle ilgili olmayip, Ankara 1. Sulh Ceza Mahkemesinin 05/05/2008 tarihli ve 2008/402 no’lu karari geregi erisimi engelli olan, http://www.youtube.com Internet adresine iliskin IP adreslerinin güncellemesinden ibarettir.
Sonuç olarak http://www.youtube.com a erisim amaciyla kullanilan ve tarafimizca engelleme tedbiri kapsaminda güncellenen IP adreslerinin arkasinda farkli sirketlere ait alan adi veya çesitli hizmetlerin barindirilmasi bu sirketlerin kendi tercihleri ve sorumluluklarindadir.
Dolayisiyla bu hizmetlerden yararlanan Internet kullanicilarinin magduriyetinin çözümü bahse konu hizmetleri sunan sirketlerin elinde bulunmaktadir.
Kamuoyuna saygi ile duyurulur.
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What does:
google translate
google documents
google sites
have to do with youtube???
Why is YouTube being banned to all
Turkish users?
The Internet is not a toy or a nanny for children(parents are used to parking there children in front of the TV, now the very same inept, irresponsible parents are using the Internet as a TV. We are ALL paying for this behavior).
The line of censorship in the name of protecting the user and censorship with the intension of economic gain(e.g. company A wants users to use its own site instead of company B, will try to cripple company B with nuisance law suits, corrupt bureaucrats and politicians to force users to use there sites under the pretense of child porn..., insult to national figures and "Hate Speech" this last one is primarily to protect corrupt people in and out of government(s).
All this already is done in the real world, these same actors are taking there acts to the internet to cover there behinds.
Less under-stood is incompetence[1] in people that do the regulatory work and the highly specialized work.
I invite an inquiry on the numbers of personal and there
competence, a list of the materials(cars, buildings, budgets. Also have they out-sourced work..etc...etc...)
Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Iletisim Kurumu Telekomünikasyon Iletisim Baskanli.
(Your Tax money at work).
This is also a very telling scandal on the level of use,
need of information, and the lack of interest of our "Enlightened class"..
tkm
[1]Incompetence:
lack of competence, ineptitude.
Administrative incompetence, dysfunctional administrative behaviors that hinder attainment of organization goals
Yaşamışlık ve Bilinç - Mümtaz Soysal
Friday, May 28, 2010 12:04:39 PM
http://www.haberinyeri.net/yazarlar.php?id=25
Haberin Yeri
Yaşamışlık ve Bilinç - Mümtaz Soysal
DÜN önemli bir tarihin ellinci yıldönümüydü, 27 Mayıs 1960 darbesinin. Herhalde önemli olmalı ki o tarih, son darbeye gelinceye kadar yirmi yıl süreyle “Anayasa ve Hürriyet Bayramı” olarak kutlanmıştır.
12 Mart 1971 ve 12 Eylül 1980 darbelerinden farklı biçimde, “emir ve komuta zinciri”ne uygun olarak yüksek komuta heyetince değil, yüzbaşıdan orgenerale kadar uzanan 38 subaylı “cunta”ca yapılan bir darbeyi “bayram” olarak kutlamaktaki “paradoks”a tarihsel perspektifin soğukkanlılığıyla bakabilmek hayli öğretici olabilir.
Sözlükler, “paradoks”u “kökleşmiş inançlara ters düşen durum ya da düşünce” olarak açıklıyor. Gerçekten, Güney Amerika’daki örneklerine benzer biçimde hukuk ve askeri disiplin kuralları çiğnenerek yapılmış, ağır cezalar ve kişisel eziyetlerle, hatta üç devlet adamının asılmasıyla sonuçlanmış bir hareketi üstelik özgürlük ve anayasa gibi kavramlarla taçlandırılarak “devrim” olarak kutlamak, yerleşik bakış açılarına ters düşen tuhaf bir çelişki değildir de nedir?
Ama yarım yüzyıllık tarihi biraz öncesinden başlayarak iyi bilmeden kolay yanıtlanabilecek bir soru değil bu. 27 Mayıs’ın öncesini ve sonrasını iyi bilmek ve bugünün ışığında duygusallıktan uzak bir bilinçle değerlendirmek gerekiyor. Bilinç, sadece bir bilgi yığını değildir. Bilginin içine kendinizi yerleştirip onu içselleştirmeli ve bundan birtakım sonuçlar, davranışlar, görevler çıkarabilmelisiniz.
Örneğin, bugün de tartışılan “milli irade” kavramı 1960’ta da tartışılıyordu. Halk çoğunluğunun oylarını alarak iktidara geçmiş olanlar kendilerini o iradenin tek temsilcisi saymakta ve her şeyi yapma hakkına sahip olduklarına inanmaktaydılar. Bu “her şey” anayasa başta olmak üzere yerleşik hukuk kurallarını zorladığı için, yalnız muhalefette ve basında değil, geniş toplum katmanlarında da tepki yaratınca ülkenin huzuru ve cumhuriyetin geleceği tehdit altına düşmüş oluyordu. 27 Mayıs, kabataslak bir tanımlamayla, bu tehdide karşı kelle koltukta tepki göstermiş olanların darbesi sayılmaktaydı.
Ne var ki hukuktaki temel sonucuyla değerlendirildiğinde 27 Mayıs’ın asıl öne çıkarılması gereken yanı, o darbe değil, bir daha hiç darbe olmasın diye Anayasa Mahkemesi, yargı bağımsızlığı ve çeşitli kurallarla milli iradenin doğru kullanılmasını sağlamaya yönelen 1961 Anayasası’dır.
Aslına bakılırsa, o tarihe kadar yaşananlar, o tarihten sonra böyle bir anayasaya göre doğru dürüst bir demokrasi düzenini yaşatma bilincini kazandırabilmiş olmalıydı bu topluma. Öyle olmadı ve başka toplumsal tehditler, darbe girişimleri ve darbeler yine yaşandı. Dolayısıyla en önemli ortak kusurumuzu, yaşanmışlar konusundaki bilgimizden henüz sağlam bir toplumsal bilinç çıkaramamış olmak diye özetlemek yanlış olmayacak galiba.
"Noise Action Week" April 26-30
Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:33:32 AM
Dear Readers,
This week was "Noise Action Week" April 26-30
Noise pollution is a real and mush more dangers
to everyday people then flues by animals or any other
hyped-up disease by the mass media(also a Noise contributor).
One would think living in a small city of Alanya would be spared the noise but the reality is during the tourist season, nearly all shops, markets big and small, municipal owned and leased-out areas, hotels, motels, bars, restaurants..etc..etc blear-out from radios tapes and other "music" playback devices from 7 am until 12 pm. then the bars, discos..
etc..etc...start until 4 am.
My fellow Turks love to make noise after a football game(2-3 times a week)and any excuse to fire-of hand guns, fireworks and businesses running street shows, with, yes, you guessed it, amplified sound systems, on full.
We have all the laws that can fit into a warehouse but MONEY is KING...
When people,collectively forget what is acceptable behavior and action, then all these words fall to deaf and unwilling ears...
What is left is a deeply dis-functioning and broken society
tkm
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http://www.epa.gov/air/noise.html#what
What is Noise Pollution?
The traditional definition of noise is “unwanted or disturbing sound”. Sound becomes unwanted when it either interferes with normal activities such as sleeping, conversation, or disrupts or diminishes one’s quality of life. The fact that you can’t see, taste or smell it may help explain why it has not received as much attention as other types of pollution, such as air pollution, or water pollution. The air around us is constantly filled with sounds, yet most of us would probably not say we are surrounded by noise. Though for some, the persistent and escalating sources of sound can often be considered an annoyance. This “annoyance” can have major consequences, primarily to one’s overall health.
Noise pollution adversely affects the lives of millions of people. Studies have shown that there are direct links between noise and health. Problems related to noise include stress related illnesses, high blood pressure, speech interference, hearing loss, sleep disruption, and lost productivity. Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) is the most common and often discussed health effect, but research has shown that exposure to constant or high levels of noise can cause countless adverse health affects.
Protection from Noise
Individuals can take many steps to protect themselves from the harmful effects of noise pollution. If people must be around loud sounds, they can protect their ears with hearing protection (e.g., ear plugs or ear muffs). There are various strategies for combating noise in your home, school, workplace, and the community.
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http://www.nonoise.org/library/civility/
Keep It Down
(and Rediscover Silence)
This piece is an excerpted chapter from P.M. Forni's book Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Five Rules of Considerate Conduct. You can find more information about the book by visiting the author's website.
My right to swing my fist ends at your nose. My right to make noise ought to end at your ear.
-Les Blomberg
Many people believe that constant noise is normal.
-Judith Martin
"Kendall, that's not your inside voice," the father of the sprightly four-year-old quietly but firmly observed. "That's your outside one." Little Kendall, whom Mother Nature had provided with powerful vocal cords, immediately switched to the appropriate, lower register. Sensitive as I am to the scourge of unnecessary and unwanted noise, I felt like breaking into applause and bestowing exuberant praise upon both parent and child. Yes, I told myself, the virtue of moderation in noise production was being kept alive for the new generations. There was hope after all.
Noise is among the most pervasive and frustrating sources of everyday annoyance -- and sometimes a veritable pain. Careful management of noise is a must for those who want to be civil. Why is noise pollution so prevalent? Because many don't seem to see (or rather hear) the problem at all and many of those who do don't care enough to correct it. The practicing piano virtuoso transported by his own music may forget that his neighbors' bedroom is only a few inches from his thundering instrument. A late-night reveler may be aware of but dismiss as inconsequential the discomfort his loud merrymaking inflicts upon others. Irrespective of the different mind-sets, in either case somebody’s peace is unnecessarily disturbed. In either case, sensitivity (or if you prefer, civility) should have prevailed.
Don't pummel those who live with and around you with loud sounds coming from your television, computer, and CD player. Make sure you don't schedule noisy lawn mowing before nine o'clock in the morning. Abstain from frivolous honking. Your car horn is neither for saying hello nor for venting your frustration. Use it only to increase road safety. Headphones are a must when listening to music on public transportation.
Respect silence in houses of worship. The chatter of rude adults and the whining and screaming of tired or unruly small children can spoil a religious service. We seem to be forgetting today that libraries call for a quiet demeanor. In a library, converse only in the designated group-study areas. In a restaurant, keep your voice down, just like at the office. In a theater, don't speak at all. You may have noticed that some food critics rate restaurants not only in the categories of food and atmosphere but also in that of quiet. A noise meter is part of today's sophisticated restaurant reviewer's professional kit.
Before entering houses of worship, libraries, restaurants, and theaters, turn off your cellular telephone. For incoming emergency calls, switch your pagers to vibrating mode. In general, your telephone should be turned off whenever its ringing would distract or annoy others. This includes all of your meetings, whether work-related or social.
If you go to the movies (or to live plays, the opera, or concerts), sooner or later you will have to deal with the chattering of fellow audience members. Can you live with it? If not, try first an inquisitive glance and then a polite whisper: "Excuse me, but your talking makes it difficult for me to enjoy the show." Should this fail, don't repeat your plea. You want to prevent the incident from escalating. And you want to be considerate of those who are not sitting close enough to be bothered by the chatter but would certainly notice an altercation. At this point, change seats, if you can, or bring the matter to the attention of an usher or a supervisor.
The strategy remains the same when dealing with noise polluters of all stripes. Decide how much you are willing to tolerate. Should you choose to intervene, take a big breath and remind yourself to remain clearheaded. Explain to the offender what the noise does to you and make your polite but firm request. Just as you don't want to be driven by your own anger, work hard at keeping the anger of others down. To do this, avoid accusatory tones and impress upon the other person that you are confident that the two of you can ultimately reach an agreement. If it feels right, propose or accept a reasonable compromise. The alternative is to seek a resolution with the help of a mediator.
In an age when background noise are virtually constant, we are slowly becoming inured to noise.
At the same time, many of us are ready to reacquaint ourselves with silence. We are beginning to realize that silence is not a void waiting to be filled, just as an immaculate church wall is not there to be defaced with spray paint. Silence is not necessarily the sign of a failure to communicate. Instead, it can be the refreshing result of a choice. We often surround ourselves with chatter and sundry sounds because we don't want to be alone with our thoughts. While noise takes us away from ourselves, through silence we build bridges to our own souls. Ultimately, the challenge to all of us on the threshold of the new century (which threatens to be a noisy one) is to treat silence as an endangered precious resource. There is an urgent need for advocates of silence. There is an urgent need for gatherers of tranquility.
ECOLOGISTS OF QUIET
While celebrating International Noise Awareness Day in 2001, Les Blomberg observed that "our soundscape is like our landscape in that noise is to that soundscape as litter is to the landscape, and... we've really cluttered up our soundscape and it's time to start cleaning it up." Les Blomberg is executive director of the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse, and organization of ecologists of quiet whose motto is "Good neighbors keep their noise to themselves." The Clearinghouse's mission is “to create more civil cities and more natural rural and wilderness areas by reducing noise pollution at the source." We know that hearing loss, stress, and high blood pressure are among the consequences of noise pollution. Experimental studies have also shown that noise has negative effects on children's learning and on performance in the workplace. "Friends of quiet," wrote Mr. Blomberg, "need to be part Rachel Carson and part Miss Manners. We need to demand that common property be protected, that our air remains clean, free of noise, smog, acid rain, etc., and that others be treated respectfully and in a manner we would wish for ourselves."
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http://www.euro.who.int/Noise/activities/20021203_2
Health effects of noise
The range of health effects of noise is wide. They include pain and hearing fatigue, hearing impairment including tinnitus, annoyance, interferences with social behaviour (aggressiveness, protest and helplessness) and with speech communication, sleep disturbance and all its consequences (long- and short-term), cardiovascular effects, hormonal responses (stress hormones) and their possible consequences on human metabolism (nutrition) and immune system, performance at work and school.
Quantifying the exposure-response relationships between noise and health
Different levels of noise induce different effects on human health. To assess the health gains of reducing noise levels, experts drew the following conclusions on exposure-response relationships.
Annoyance
There is sufficient and reliable data to derive exposure-response relationships between noise and annoyance. Exposure-response curves exist for road, aircraft and railway noise and exposure to multiple sources.
Sleep disturbance in adults
To some degree, the immediate effects of sleep disturbance are quantified:
1.number and duration of nocturnal awakenings
2.number of sleep stage changes
3.number of electroencephalographic arousals
4.global changes in total amount of sleep stages or in their time organization (sleep architecture)
Exposure-response curves exist for awakenings, based on laboratories and self-assessment questionnaires. Nevertheless, many questions remain on how poor sleep relates to or induces poor health.
Sleep disturbance in children
The long-term effects of poor sleep in children exposed to noisy sleep environments are still very uncertain. For example, the potential for the developing adult insomnia needs evaluation.
Hearing impairment
Studies and data are not sufficient to derive relationships beween community/social noise-specific exposure and hearing impairment in adults and children. Assuming that social noise is not significantly different from occupational noise and that the equal energy principle is applicable, however, exposure-response curves can be established on the basis of ISO 1999, which uses an audiometric threshold shift at 4 kHz.
Loss of productivity in adults
Noise affects motivation and irrelevant speech and has pronounced impact on performance. For recall and reading, a reduction of the noise level by 5 Ldn can be expected to improve performance by something like 10%, at least when the reduction starts within the region 65-80 Ldn. For attentional tasks and for recognition memory, a 5 Ldn reduction in noise level presumably only results in 2-3% improvement of the response.
Loss of productivity in children
Memory recall and reading seem to be the functions affected by noise.
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http://www.euro.who.int/eprise/main/WHO/MediaCentre/PR/2009/20091008_1?language=
W.H.O.(World Health Organization)
One in five Europeans is regularly exposed to sound levels at night that could significantly damage health
WHO introduces guidelines to protect people’s health from night noise pollution
Copenhagen and Bonn, 8 October 2009
Today, the WHO Regional Office for Europe launches its Night noise guidelines for Europe. (1) The book provides ground-breaking evidence on how exposure to night noise can damage people’s health, and recommends guideline levels to protect health.
The new limit is an annual average night exposure not exceeding 40 decibels (dB), corresponding to the sound from a quiet street in a residential area. Sleepers that are exposed to higher levels over the year can suffer mild health effects, such as sleep disturbance and insomnia. Long-term average exposure to levels above 55 dB, similar to the noise from a busy street, can trigger elevated blood pressure and heart attacks. One in five Europeans is regularly exposed to such noise levels.
“Noise has emerged as the leading environmental nuisance in Europe, and excessive noise is an increasingly common public complaint. The new guidelines will help countries to recognize and address the issues surrounding noise and health,” says Dr Srdan Matic, Unit Head, Noncommunicable Diseases and Environment at the WHO Regional Office for Europe. “Based on a six-year expert evaluation of scientific evidence in Europe, now governments have stronger justifications for regulating exposure to night noise, and clear guidance on what these limits should be.” Thirty-five scientists from medical and acoustical disciplines, and key partners such as the European Commission, were involved in developing the guidelines.
Effects on health
Recent research clearly links exposure to night noise with harm to health. Noise can aggravate serious health problems, beyond damage to hearing, particularly through its effects on sleep and the relations between sleep and health. When people are asleep, their ears, brains and bodies continue to react to sounds. Sleep disturbance and annoyance are the first effects of night noise and can lead to mental disorders.
The effects of noise can even trigger premature illness and death. Night noise from aircraft can increase blood pressure, even if it does not wake people. Noise is likely to be more harmful when people are trying to fall asleep and awaken. Recent studies show that aircraft noise in the early morning is the most harmful in increasing the heart rate.
More vulnerable groups
Some groups are more vulnerable to noise. As children spend more time in bed than adults, they are more exposed to night noise. Chronically ill and elderly people are more sensitive to disturbance. Shift workers are at increased risk because their sleep structure is under stress. In addition, the less affluent, who cannot afford to live in quiet residential areas or have adequately insulated homes, are likely to suffer disproportionately. Nuisance at night can lead to an increase in medical visits and spending on sleeping pills, which affects families’ budgets and countries’ health expenditure. The gap between rich and poor is likely to increase if governments fail to address noise pollution.
Noise limits and action by countries
The new WHO book provides both evidence and recommendations that countries can easily use in introducing targeted noise limits. The guidelines complement the recent European Union environmental noise directive; (2) it requires countries to map noise hotspots and reduce human exposure, but stops short of setting limits.
Interventions combining reductions in both noise events and sound levels are most effective in reducing exposure to excessive noise. Zoning can assist planning authorities in keeping noise away from sensitive areas through, for example, routing traffic away from hospitals and schools and erecting noise barriers. Exposed areas could be good sites for offices, where no people would be present at night. Placing bedrooms on the quiet side of a dwelling is a simple measure. Sound insulation of bedroom windows is another option, but care must be taken to avoid reducing indoor air quality.
“Just like air pollution and toxic chemicals, noise is an environmental hazard to health. While almost everyone is exposed to too much noise, it has traditionally been dismissed as an inevitable fact of urban life and has not been targeted and controlled as much as other risks,” concludes Dr Rokho Kim of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, who managed the project to draw up the guidelines. “We hope that the new guidelines will create a culture of noise awareness, and prompt governments and local authorities to invest effort and money in protecting health from this growing hazard, particularly in cities.”
This week was "Noise Action Week" April 26-30
Noise pollution is a real and mush more dangers
to everyday people then flues by animals or any other
hyped-up disease by the mass media(also a Noise contributor).
One would think living in a small city of Alanya would be spared the noise but the reality is during the tourist season, nearly all shops, markets big and small, municipal owned and leased-out areas, hotels, motels, bars, restaurants..etc..etc blear-out from radios tapes and other "music" playback devices from 7 am until 12 pm. then the bars, discos..
etc..etc...start until 4 am.
My fellow Turks love to make noise after a football game(2-3 times a week)and any excuse to fire-of hand guns, fireworks and businesses running street shows, with, yes, you guessed it, amplified sound systems, on full.
We have all the laws that can fit into a warehouse but MONEY is KING...
When people,collectively forget what is acceptable behavior and action, then all these words fall to deaf and unwilling ears...
What is left is a deeply dis-functioning and broken society
tkm
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.epa.gov/air/noise.html#what
What is Noise Pollution?
The traditional definition of noise is “unwanted or disturbing sound”. Sound becomes unwanted when it either interferes with normal activities such as sleeping, conversation, or disrupts or diminishes one’s quality of life. The fact that you can’t see, taste or smell it may help explain why it has not received as much attention as other types of pollution, such as air pollution, or water pollution. The air around us is constantly filled with sounds, yet most of us would probably not say we are surrounded by noise. Though for some, the persistent and escalating sources of sound can often be considered an annoyance. This “annoyance” can have major consequences, primarily to one’s overall health.
Noise pollution adversely affects the lives of millions of people. Studies have shown that there are direct links between noise and health. Problems related to noise include stress related illnesses, high blood pressure, speech interference, hearing loss, sleep disruption, and lost productivity. Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) is the most common and often discussed health effect, but research has shown that exposure to constant or high levels of noise can cause countless adverse health affects.
Protection from Noise
Individuals can take many steps to protect themselves from the harmful effects of noise pollution. If people must be around loud sounds, they can protect their ears with hearing protection (e.g., ear plugs or ear muffs). There are various strategies for combating noise in your home, school, workplace, and the community.
-----------------------------
http://www.nonoise.org/library/civility/
Keep It Down
(and Rediscover Silence)
This piece is an excerpted chapter from P.M. Forni's book Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Five Rules of Considerate Conduct. You can find more information about the book by visiting the author's website.
My right to swing my fist ends at your nose. My right to make noise ought to end at your ear.
-Les Blomberg
Many people believe that constant noise is normal.
-Judith Martin
"Kendall, that's not your inside voice," the father of the sprightly four-year-old quietly but firmly observed. "That's your outside one." Little Kendall, whom Mother Nature had provided with powerful vocal cords, immediately switched to the appropriate, lower register. Sensitive as I am to the scourge of unnecessary and unwanted noise, I felt like breaking into applause and bestowing exuberant praise upon both parent and child. Yes, I told myself, the virtue of moderation in noise production was being kept alive for the new generations. There was hope after all.
Noise is among the most pervasive and frustrating sources of everyday annoyance -- and sometimes a veritable pain. Careful management of noise is a must for those who want to be civil. Why is noise pollution so prevalent? Because many don't seem to see (or rather hear) the problem at all and many of those who do don't care enough to correct it. The practicing piano virtuoso transported by his own music may forget that his neighbors' bedroom is only a few inches from his thundering instrument. A late-night reveler may be aware of but dismiss as inconsequential the discomfort his loud merrymaking inflicts upon others. Irrespective of the different mind-sets, in either case somebody’s peace is unnecessarily disturbed. In either case, sensitivity (or if you prefer, civility) should have prevailed.
Don't pummel those who live with and around you with loud sounds coming from your television, computer, and CD player. Make sure you don't schedule noisy lawn mowing before nine o'clock in the morning. Abstain from frivolous honking. Your car horn is neither for saying hello nor for venting your frustration. Use it only to increase road safety. Headphones are a must when listening to music on public transportation.
Respect silence in houses of worship. The chatter of rude adults and the whining and screaming of tired or unruly small children can spoil a religious service. We seem to be forgetting today that libraries call for a quiet demeanor. In a library, converse only in the designated group-study areas. In a restaurant, keep your voice down, just like at the office. In a theater, don't speak at all. You may have noticed that some food critics rate restaurants not only in the categories of food and atmosphere but also in that of quiet. A noise meter is part of today's sophisticated restaurant reviewer's professional kit.
Before entering houses of worship, libraries, restaurants, and theaters, turn off your cellular telephone. For incoming emergency calls, switch your pagers to vibrating mode. In general, your telephone should be turned off whenever its ringing would distract or annoy others. This includes all of your meetings, whether work-related or social.
If you go to the movies (or to live plays, the opera, or concerts), sooner or later you will have to deal with the chattering of fellow audience members. Can you live with it? If not, try first an inquisitive glance and then a polite whisper: "Excuse me, but your talking makes it difficult for me to enjoy the show." Should this fail, don't repeat your plea. You want to prevent the incident from escalating. And you want to be considerate of those who are not sitting close enough to be bothered by the chatter but would certainly notice an altercation. At this point, change seats, if you can, or bring the matter to the attention of an usher or a supervisor.
The strategy remains the same when dealing with noise polluters of all stripes. Decide how much you are willing to tolerate. Should you choose to intervene, take a big breath and remind yourself to remain clearheaded. Explain to the offender what the noise does to you and make your polite but firm request. Just as you don't want to be driven by your own anger, work hard at keeping the anger of others down. To do this, avoid accusatory tones and impress upon the other person that you are confident that the two of you can ultimately reach an agreement. If it feels right, propose or accept a reasonable compromise. The alternative is to seek a resolution with the help of a mediator.
In an age when background noise are virtually constant, we are slowly becoming inured to noise.
At the same time, many of us are ready to reacquaint ourselves with silence. We are beginning to realize that silence is not a void waiting to be filled, just as an immaculate church wall is not there to be defaced with spray paint. Silence is not necessarily the sign of a failure to communicate. Instead, it can be the refreshing result of a choice. We often surround ourselves with chatter and sundry sounds because we don't want to be alone with our thoughts. While noise takes us away from ourselves, through silence we build bridges to our own souls. Ultimately, the challenge to all of us on the threshold of the new century (which threatens to be a noisy one) is to treat silence as an endangered precious resource. There is an urgent need for advocates of silence. There is an urgent need for gatherers of tranquility.
ECOLOGISTS OF QUIET
While celebrating International Noise Awareness Day in 2001, Les Blomberg observed that "our soundscape is like our landscape in that noise is to that soundscape as litter is to the landscape, and... we've really cluttered up our soundscape and it's time to start cleaning it up." Les Blomberg is executive director of the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse, and organization of ecologists of quiet whose motto is "Good neighbors keep their noise to themselves." The Clearinghouse's mission is “to create more civil cities and more natural rural and wilderness areas by reducing noise pollution at the source." We know that hearing loss, stress, and high blood pressure are among the consequences of noise pollution. Experimental studies have also shown that noise has negative effects on children's learning and on performance in the workplace. "Friends of quiet," wrote Mr. Blomberg, "need to be part Rachel Carson and part Miss Manners. We need to demand that common property be protected, that our air remains clean, free of noise, smog, acid rain, etc., and that others be treated respectfully and in a manner we would wish for ourselves."
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Health effects of noise
The range of health effects of noise is wide. They include pain and hearing fatigue, hearing impairment including tinnitus, annoyance, interferences with social behaviour (aggressiveness, protest and helplessness) and with speech communication, sleep disturbance and all its consequences (long- and short-term), cardiovascular effects, hormonal responses (stress hormones) and their possible consequences on human metabolism (nutrition) and immune system, performance at work and school.
Quantifying the exposure-response relationships between noise and health
Different levels of noise induce different effects on human health. To assess the health gains of reducing noise levels, experts drew the following conclusions on exposure-response relationships.
Annoyance
There is sufficient and reliable data to derive exposure-response relationships between noise and annoyance. Exposure-response curves exist for road, aircraft and railway noise and exposure to multiple sources.
Sleep disturbance in adults
To some degree, the immediate effects of sleep disturbance are quantified:
1.number and duration of nocturnal awakenings
2.number of sleep stage changes
3.number of electroencephalographic arousals
4.global changes in total amount of sleep stages or in their time organization (sleep architecture)
Exposure-response curves exist for awakenings, based on laboratories and self-assessment questionnaires. Nevertheless, many questions remain on how poor sleep relates to or induces poor health.
Sleep disturbance in children
The long-term effects of poor sleep in children exposed to noisy sleep environments are still very uncertain. For example, the potential for the developing adult insomnia needs evaluation.
Hearing impairment
Studies and data are not sufficient to derive relationships beween community/social noise-specific exposure and hearing impairment in adults and children. Assuming that social noise is not significantly different from occupational noise and that the equal energy principle is applicable, however, exposure-response curves can be established on the basis of ISO 1999, which uses an audiometric threshold shift at 4 kHz.
Loss of productivity in adults
Noise affects motivation and irrelevant speech and has pronounced impact on performance. For recall and reading, a reduction of the noise level by 5 Ldn can be expected to improve performance by something like 10%, at least when the reduction starts within the region 65-80 Ldn. For attentional tasks and for recognition memory, a 5 Ldn reduction in noise level presumably only results in 2-3% improvement of the response.
Loss of productivity in children
Memory recall and reading seem to be the functions affected by noise.
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W.H.O.(World Health Organization)
One in five Europeans is regularly exposed to sound levels at night that could significantly damage health
WHO introduces guidelines to protect people’s health from night noise pollution
Copenhagen and Bonn, 8 October 2009
Today, the WHO Regional Office for Europe launches its Night noise guidelines for Europe. (1) The book provides ground-breaking evidence on how exposure to night noise can damage people’s health, and recommends guideline levels to protect health.
The new limit is an annual average night exposure not exceeding 40 decibels (dB), corresponding to the sound from a quiet street in a residential area. Sleepers that are exposed to higher levels over the year can suffer mild health effects, such as sleep disturbance and insomnia. Long-term average exposure to levels above 55 dB, similar to the noise from a busy street, can trigger elevated blood pressure and heart attacks. One in five Europeans is regularly exposed to such noise levels.
“Noise has emerged as the leading environmental nuisance in Europe, and excessive noise is an increasingly common public complaint. The new guidelines will help countries to recognize and address the issues surrounding noise and health,” says Dr Srdan Matic, Unit Head, Noncommunicable Diseases and Environment at the WHO Regional Office for Europe. “Based on a six-year expert evaluation of scientific evidence in Europe, now governments have stronger justifications for regulating exposure to night noise, and clear guidance on what these limits should be.” Thirty-five scientists from medical and acoustical disciplines, and key partners such as the European Commission, were involved in developing the guidelines.
Effects on health
Recent research clearly links exposure to night noise with harm to health. Noise can aggravate serious health problems, beyond damage to hearing, particularly through its effects on sleep and the relations between sleep and health. When people are asleep, their ears, brains and bodies continue to react to sounds. Sleep disturbance and annoyance are the first effects of night noise and can lead to mental disorders.
The effects of noise can even trigger premature illness and death. Night noise from aircraft can increase blood pressure, even if it does not wake people. Noise is likely to be more harmful when people are trying to fall asleep and awaken. Recent studies show that aircraft noise in the early morning is the most harmful in increasing the heart rate.
More vulnerable groups
Some groups are more vulnerable to noise. As children spend more time in bed than adults, they are more exposed to night noise. Chronically ill and elderly people are more sensitive to disturbance. Shift workers are at increased risk because their sleep structure is under stress. In addition, the less affluent, who cannot afford to live in quiet residential areas or have adequately insulated homes, are likely to suffer disproportionately. Nuisance at night can lead to an increase in medical visits and spending on sleeping pills, which affects families’ budgets and countries’ health expenditure. The gap between rich and poor is likely to increase if governments fail to address noise pollution.
Noise limits and action by countries
The new WHO book provides both evidence and recommendations that countries can easily use in introducing targeted noise limits. The guidelines complement the recent European Union environmental noise directive; (2) it requires countries to map noise hotspots and reduce human exposure, but stops short of setting limits.
Interventions combining reductions in both noise events and sound levels are most effective in reducing exposure to excessive noise. Zoning can assist planning authorities in keeping noise away from sensitive areas through, for example, routing traffic away from hospitals and schools and erecting noise barriers. Exposed areas could be good sites for offices, where no people would be present at night. Placing bedrooms on the quiet side of a dwelling is a simple measure. Sound insulation of bedroom windows is another option, but care must be taken to avoid reducing indoor air quality.
“Just like air pollution and toxic chemicals, noise is an environmental hazard to health. While almost everyone is exposed to too much noise, it has traditionally been dismissed as an inevitable fact of urban life and has not been targeted and controlled as much as other risks,” concludes Dr Rokho Kim of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, who managed the project to draw up the guidelines. “We hope that the new guidelines will create a culture of noise awareness, and prompt governments and local authorities to invest effort and money in protecting health from this growing hazard, particularly in cities.”
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